ADDITIONAL MAIL ITEMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 162, 11 April 1877, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL ITEMS.

A womannamed Elizabeth Kirkbride, has been committed for trial at Penrith charged with murdering and concealing the bodies of six infant children, which sne has had during several years. There was great sensation in Court during the hearing of the case. She accused a mau she had been livihg with as the instigator of the crime. He had left her and married.

Considerable excitement was manifested some days ago on the discovery of a number : . of bodies ou an undertaker’s premises, near Regent Park. An investigation showed that they were of still-born children, for the burial of which the man said he had received the fees, but had never removed them to the cemetery.

The steamer George Washington was wrecked off Cape Race. All aboard, twenty-four in number, perished. The Argus correspondent telegraphs that a small local loan, for New Zealand has been successfully negotiated during the past month. Fearful gales on sea and land were experienced during January. Between thirty and .forty North Sea fishing smacks are missing with about two hundred men aboard.

The City of Christchurch instructed the Bank of New Zealand to write for tenders for the half of a loan of £200,000 \ the money to be employed in carryihg on an efficient scheme of drainage for that city and district. In making the announcement, the Times warns the Colony of the danger involved in making frequent appeals to the British purse. “The rapidity,” says the city editor “ with which the Government and Municipalities of New Zealand bring out new loans is not a good sign, and it is to be regretted that ■worksso indirectly beneficial as drainage could not have been made with money

raised m the town itself, secured though it be on the rateable property of the town, said to be an annual value of ,301. This loan can hardly form an enticing subject of investment here.” The public for once, however, did not heed these dissuasions. The terms six per cent, debentures at a minimum of ninety-eight,, were too attractive to be resisted, while there is such a surplus of money in the market earning next to nothing. Application, has been made to the Stock Exchange Committee for a special settling day in respect of this loan, and an official quotation in the daily list. The position of New Zealand securities in our market, has undoubtedly been strengthened by the public announcement recently made by the? Agent-General, that the Government will not bring forward any further loan, m London, during the present year.