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Otago Witness, Issue 1586, 15 April 1882, Page 9

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Upwards of 3000 persons visited, H.M.S, Miranda in Lyttelton on Friday. Edith Turner, a servant girl at Irwell, Canterbury committed suicide by taking a solution uf bluestone.

Mrs Fuller, convicted of arson, at Wellington has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude.

Kelty's store, at Switzers, was totally de-, stroyed by fire on Monday morning. The insurances on the stock and premises amount to £2250.

Nearly 2000 visitors arrived by the phrist- ( church trains from the South on Saturday . night and Sunday, including a large numbor of Southern Volunteers. The review and sham fight at Wanganui on Easter Monday were highly successful. From 4000 to 5000 people wore present at the review, which was taken part in by Nelson and other Volunteers.

Albert William Tomos committed suicide with a revolver on Thursday, near Rangiora. The supposed cause of tho act was his straightened circumstances.

A man named Power, whon endeavouring to got aboard the hulk Cora at Wellington fell over the breastwork. A lady who was passing threw a rope to him, and after a little difficulty he was rescued, though much exhausted. Mr Denton, the lecturer, has been for the last two weeks hunting out fossils, &c. in Northern Canterbury. He has secured three cases of moa bones alone, and speaks highly of tho Arnuri country as a field for the geologist. The Rev. George Barclay, Presbyterian minister, who is leaving Timaru for the Old Country, was presented at Geraldine with a cheque for £550, subscribed by his parishoners and many other friends.

The Htella, which arrived from the West Coast at Wellington ou Monday, brought in tolligcnce that a bird-catchor named Wheel or, at Preservation Inlet, has been missing for three or four weeks, and it is feared that ho has lost his life,

A boat capsized off Kauri Point (Auckland), oa7th containing Wm. Grose (traveller), Potor Birley (blacksmith), W.Davidson (\ork Hotel), and Charles Lee (clerk at Ireland Bros). Lee was drowned ; the rest were rescued by a passing boat. Lee leaves a wife and children. Information has just bee i received that Te Kara Torahuni, a Maori, was killed by his nephew, Tamati Puru, on tho sth instant at Waiomatatutu, near Awanui, on the East Coast. The parties had a light, and tho prisoner hit his uncle with a blunt instrument, inflicting a wound which resulted in death. News has been received of the death in London of Dv Cotterell, late of Invercargill and well known in most parts of the South island. The cause of doath was an abscess in the region of the back, for which he had to undergo two operations. He succumbed during- the performance of the second. Frederick Fairburn, surveyor, who was committed for trial for breaking and entering the residence of the Rev. William Gittos, at Kaipara, was it appears, when discovered in the house, horsewhipped by Mr Gittos' two daughters and knocked down by a servant man who came to their assistance. He had been forbidden the house. Mr Gittos was away preaching at Kainai Station that oveuiiur. In a drunken affray in tho vicinity of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Auckland, on the 7th, one man, named William Reynold, was cut aoout the head; another, Robert Alexander Brandon, received a scalp wound, and was sent to the Hospital. Reynolds got a revolver, but his assailants wrested it from him, discharged the chambers in the air, and went off with it. The assailants are unknown, as those concerned in the affray are unable to give a coherent account of it. Upwards of 7000 people visited Christchurch by train from the country districts on Tuesday ; and 15,000 travelled on the tramcars to and from the Exhibition. The total estimated number of visitors to the Exhibition on Tuesday was 24,000. Owing to the very wet weather, the Volunteer review by, the Governor did not take place. His Excellency has issued an order complimenting the Volunteers on their appearance they presented on Tuesday, and thanking them for their attendance. Tho Oamaru and Timaru Volunteers loft on Tuesday afternoon.