Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XIX, Issue 1503, 9 December 1890, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

[By Electric Telegraph.] INTERPROVINCIAL

[from oun own correspondent]

Auckland, Dec 8

The mail steamer Zeilandia is two days overdue, and there are no signs of her yet. It is feared she has broken down at sea through some accident to her machinery.

Fielding, Dec. 8. Capt. W. lilphinstoiif! Dalrymple died suddenly yesterday, .Ho was formerly Captain of the Cape Mounted Rifles, and aide-dc camp to Sir Bartle Frere. Lyttelton, Dec. 8. Now that the elections are over, it is only fair to represent positive facts. Mr McGregor, as a Peninsula man, maintained a majority of 800 votes. Mr Joyce, who on the Peninsula had no confidence whatever, had by the complete organisation of the Unions or Labor party, as was wired to you during the election, a majority of 403, in yttelton. Practically the member returned for the Akaroa-Lyttelton electorate represents only the Labor party of Lyttelton, and not the electorate. Out of eleven hundred and thirty-nine voters on the Peninsula, only seven hundred and ninety-five exercised the use of their rights as electors, thus leaving some 340 voters who never took the right offered to exercise. There was a great amount of jubilation amongst the Lyttelton Unionists at the result. This evening some twenty-eight prisoners went away in the Hinemoa to work the roads to Milford Sound. The Telegraph says there is on view in the shop of Mr A. W. Parsons, chemist of Lyttelton, an extraordinary freak of nature in the shape of a fully formed chicken with four legs. The legs are well proportioned and have their attachment to the body in separate places. The bird is fully feathered, and the wings are large. The specimen is well worth inspection by those who study vagaries ot nature.

Christchurch, Dec. 8. On Sunday morning their died in Worcester street, Christchurch, Mr H. Richmond, a brother of His Honor Mr Justice Richmond and Mr J. C. Richmond. The deceased gentlemen, who was the youngest of the three brothers, came to New Zealand about 1850. He lauded in New Plymouth in company with his two brothers, and first went into agricultural pursuits. After the constitution was granted to the colony, he became the third Superintendent of Taranaki, and also held other official positions under the Provincial Government for a short time. He* was editor of the Taranaki News, and subsequently was engaged in .teaching. At the age of forth-flve he began in Nelson the study of the law, and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court ot New Zealand three years later. Since that time he has been in practice as a solicitor in New 1 ' Plymouth. His j health failing, he came south and went to Dunedin for medical treatment. Subsequently he returned to Christchurch, and resided here until the period of his death as given above.

, ' London, Dec. 6. Numbers of dockers are deserting the Union. The " Shipping Companies maintain the stand they have taken up in the present disputes. The sailors

have struck work, but the dockers disapproved of their action. Sir M. McKenzie has publicly treated a consumptive patient with Dr. Koch's cure "''' Innbsbruok, Dec. 7. A girl of strong physique died here under Dr. Koch's lymph. Adklaior, Dec. 6. In a cricket match between the Norwood Club and .South Adelaide, the former made 627 in one innings. G. Giffen made 296, the highest individual score yet recorded in the colony. Mi lbourne, Dec. 6. A girl of fifteen living at Mac Arthur slept over eleven days. She could be roused and fed, but fell aslejp agaiu immediately afterwards. The affection is not cateleptic. The strike of slaughtermen is ended, the Unionists find that nearly all their places have been filled up. The locusts destroyed whole crops of oats and barley in several districts in one day.