INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 79, 20 April 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

o — [From the Press Agency]. Wellington, April 17. All the shares in the New Te Aro Theatre Company are taken up. Plans have been prepared, and tenders will be invited forthwith. Information has been received that the following vessels have arrived at London from Melbourne:—Old Kensington, City of Corinth. From Sydney —William Duthie, and Marlow. Three prisoners were flogged at the gaol this morning. Jno. M'Cann, for rape at the Hutt, received his second flogging of 30 lashes ; Owen Kune of Wanganui, for a similar offence, received his second flogging of 25 lashes, and Rudolph Lawrent, also for rape, received his only flogging of 20 lashes. Lawrent was quite exhausted at the close of the punishment. Nelson, April 17. Sharp and Pickering report the sale of Highfield run, Amuri, to Messrs Wherton and Hayter, for £63,0000. The property includes 22,794 acres freehold, and 50,528 acres leasehold, with 40,000 sheep. At the Supreme Court the Grand Jury made a presentment recommending that the present criminal jurisdiction of the District Court should be extended to all crimes except murder, treason, libels, and conspiracies. The Chief Justice expressed his entire concurrence to the recommendation. Auckland, April 18. The wife of a storekeeper named Cross poisoned herself with oxalic acid at Parnell. The poison had been in the house some time, and was obtained about six months ago for cleaning purposes. The evidence showed that some two years ago there was a disagreement between her and her husband. Dunedin, April 17. Mr. Watt, Resident Magistrate, this morning decided that it is illegal for a publican to sell drink on Sunday except to the lodger or bonafide traveller. Gold has been found on a Government reserve at Outram ; about 100 men are on the ground. The experience miner can make 15s to £1 per day, The Chinese on Quarantine Island are to be admitted to pratique as soon as arrangement can be made for thoroughly well washing them "in water and carbolic acid, also for burning and fumigating their clothes." Referring to the Governor's visit, the Guardian this morning says :—" Independently altogether of the money question, we ask, What has the Governor done that a fuss should be made over him ? Some Governors, when they have acted contrary to the feelings and desires of the people have had to leave. Can it be said that we in Otago are to pass unchallenged the Governor's actions ? If we do this, we are simply inviting centralistic tyranny to further trample on us. It should be the duty of the Governor •to hold the scales equally between the rival parties in the colony. Lord Normanby did not do so, and we submit that the City Council knowing, that the majority of the citizens are Provincialists, should be the last to recognise him in any way whatever." The Evening Star characterises the Guardian's remarks as being a gross ill-mannered attack upon Her Majesty's representative, and a disgrace to its columns.