Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XX, Issue 1519, 3 February 1891, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

[By Ei.kotrio Telegraph.]

INTERPROVINGIAL

[from our own correspondknt]

liYTT ELTON, Feb. 2. Petition quashed. Joyce declared elected, with costs.

The petition in regard to the Akaroa election was thrown out on account of the petitioner not being in the position of proving that the election was in any way effected by the polling booths being closed an hour earlier. The Mascotte has not yet arrived from Wellington. She is overdue. The Pastime arrived at 11 p.m. Sunday. Chuistohuroh, Feb. 2. Information was brought to the Police Depot this afternoon by a man named Hodgkinson, that two young men, named Samuel Mardon (nineteen) and another, who is believed to be James Evans, were drowned about norm to-day in Mardon's mill dam on the Islam creek at Upper Riccarton. Full particulars are not yet to hand, but it is stated thpy Wfre out in a boat, which was by some means or other upset. The deceased Mardon is a son of the proprietor of the mill. Napier, Feb. 2. An unoccupied store on the spit, formerly the Union Bank premises, adjoining Ecbjohn's extensive stores and bond was destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. The 'Frisco Mail steamer has arrived. She brings news there has been a hard winter in England, and terrible weather on the continent. The severe weather has caused great distress among the English poor, and all out-door irades in London have been suspended for seven weeks. A man was frozen to death at Preston, and there was an immense fall of snow in Berlin. People were frozen to death in the streets of Paris, and ships were icebound in the Elbe, Germany. The crews suftered great privations through lack of provisions. Several wrecks are reported on the Spanish oast. There have been numerous deaths in England. The German and Belgian harbors are icebound, and dynamite was used at Copenhagen to extract ships from the ice. All Bavaria and Northern Italy were covered by snow. Many persons perished in severe snowstorms at Algiers. The Thames and Seine rivers were frozen. London, Feb. 1. Mr Bradlaugh's funeral will take place on Tuesday.

Sir C. Dilke is mentioned as a candidate for Northampton in Mr Bradlaugh's place.

The Australian cruiser Tauranga leaves for the colonips in a fortnight.