INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 882, 14 March 1879, Page 3

INTE RPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

A man nnmel Pe i- cv has confessed to bavin; aocieotally set fin; to a haystack at Maa'erton. He his since been arrested for forcing a cheque for six uuineas.

Dennis Hurley, while wo'k'ng in Mast.ro Gully, near Givvinnuth, last week, was killed by a fall of ■ arth A new ti nl of alluvial gold, si* miles from Gn-ynioaith, is reported. 200 miners a e on the around.

le is proposed to hnM a Social Science Congress in Melbourne during the Exhibition s ason.

The estimates for the Colony of Fiji show a revenue of Lfil.(l(l9. The expenditure for 1879 was estimated at L 74.009, and the revenue at L 73.000

The Piako, which put iote r> ernambuco on account of fire, and which was bourn! for Lyttelton, has arrived there She was 15(5 days from London. There are nine additional entries (or the Dunedin Champa me Stakes of 18S9, The total number is now 89. or more than twice that of last year. MrC E Bird, manager of the Fcrnhill Club, Dunedin, lias been fined L 25 for having a sea or salmon trout in his possession, contrary to the act •'he ship 'Va -nock has sailed from Flynn >n‘n with immigrants for Wellington. 8876 ounces of gold wer’ shioiiel from Greymoj-h for Melbourne on th • o'h i as‘ A host, containing 11 sea el Comannaiiste has arrive lat M ora mo Ba, 8 isbaaie, 16 alays out. There u eoDstarna'ion in tha town.

The Qn enslsn I Government have cable! the Agent-G iiieral to ston a 1 emigration to that Colony far the present.

A man named George Sadiriff ard met with a very S'ri ns accident at Kirk's balast pit. Greytown, on thefi'h. Two bank n ri >s and serio'ag internal injuries were the r -nit He is still in a very precarious condition. Several of the, K lly svmpa'hisois. who were arrested several weeks since, have been tbo police being usable,

owing to the Kelly scare, to bring forward witnesses. Eight men are still remanded. A Melbourne hairdresser named Morel has been comniitte I for trial for alleged embracery in connection with David Henry’s t i.d.

Last year, out of 121 mining accidents In Vietmia, 40 persons were killed and 100 injured. The insurgents in -Noumea are surrendering in hundreds, including many chiefs. A “ special ” in the Dunedin Star says : the report concerning Mias Carmichael’s insanity is false. She is quite sane and is about to be married. Messrs Cullen Brotheis’ M’Cormick’s machine won the Tapanui Society's Cup of ten guin-as last week.

A daughter of S>r George Bowen is aflfi meed to a wealthy squjtter. The Victorian Governme it are engaging Queensland nat-ve police Another expedition to New Guinea is being organised in Wel'ington. The pas sage m-mev is l.fiO. and tha number will probably not exceed SO. Last veir’s ane rs due to the Government on account of assisted an I nominated immigrants, amounted to 1.47.9118. A man named David Pined! was drowned in the Wanganui Hi ter last week He was employe I on the Wait ra, a id was kmn-ke I overhear I by the wire of the funnel whilst pa-simr a ferry.

Th- Waitmgi and Oran (both from Lytt -lton) have arrive ! in L -n bin. An attempt to wilfn'ly luirn own a house in Stanmorj Road. Christchurch, was in oh n Saturday morning. There is as yet tm clue to the incendiarist.

Propa-a'ions for the rowing m itch hetween Rush and Laycock are procceling There is n<> he ting It is ca'ru'ated that the average yic'd nf the harvest in Sou'h Australia will be a fraction over seven bushe's to the a ere.

A cablegram has b-en receive I i donating that the visit of the English footballers to Australia has been postponed. No reason is given.

Heavy fl >ols have occurred in the Northern Territory. One Chinaman was drowned at Yam Creek, and there his been great lo « of provisions and property.

Twoci-'dined native boys who w-re travelling with Pf Browne’s exne liti m, hj ive b. murdered bvthe Alice ■hirings na ives. For some time past the nativ s have been killing cattle, horses, and sheep, and police protection is wanted. The ladies of Melbourne have presented Lady B iw«n with a diamond tiara of the value of 400 guineas A firm of sol citors in Wellington expect 1,70,000 by the next mail for investment in the Colony. The coopers in Sydney hj ive struck owing to the introduction of niadiinery. The I vc-eargill Jockey Club have dp. cide l to hold their race nice iug on the loth and lOtb April 144.473 tons iif coal, valued at 1.244,412, were imoorted to New Zeil-md from Newc. difing the last financial year Fishhook’s owner intends to enter him fur th- next Melbourne Cnp, the Hawkesbnrv Handicap, and the Sydney Metropolitan Handicao Three dea’bs have occurred from sunstr.'ko at Grafton. A Chinaman who was imprisoned in the Conktown lock-up hj inged hims df w th his pig ail. “ The Manchester story about roast id s rniinin ■ wil 1 with knives an I fo ks shirk in them h>s,” savs the’ Star.’ “ fun 1 1 a para'le! in Auckland. We are assured in '1 seriousness by a g mtlem m f veraejhv. wh-> recently w n nt nn a visit to ’he sulphur snrm •, ' hut dining his sta v numerous reat. Intisteis came out of tb- 'epths of the ocean and inconti"en‘lv cawl-l into the bo! iog springs became cook "I. so ’b it our informant and a tvogv of friends were enabled to nicnic on fresh b.ilel |obs‘ers sa-.s exne se. Peonle who ar l ' partial to boiled lobster will nrob.iblv make the subdiur springs a f.asbi-na'de ri-s >rt, an 1 thus anotbep nrofi ab'e industry wi l be added to the fist, ” Bears, the Secretary of th- Brotcata' t AR'anoe, Melbourne whose clothes were f un 1 on the each at < 'b.dt.p ib.im bis been a-r-sted on a charge of b in ■ a Vf aal'e . H > was hiding for a month in Gippslan ’ bush.

A fie hrok *'T» f in the M Twav TT• »t 1. Mil*on. hptwe *n m 1 f n** on Sa'nrlav roomin ', whieh resoVel in the total tips, trillion of the hotel »n 1 it.** r h * O'yvme'Ce cann-t h«* ne- nn‘e l for. Th ‘ Inn M*»rl, Mr 'Vhiteheal* was in omi'll • at the Hm ft . The in i nra’»ees nH e hniMi *•.»« aw t/?0\ and on 'he stock and furniture. LSI* Matthew Maeh*nn was found dea l in his Hpi in a ••oar iin ,r -h *nse at WeMiii 't,,n no Mon hav H** hal heen drinking hj i av?l\% and whon foun ■ he had a fatal woim 1 e’-'se *o the h rt art, whfeh hj had apparently inflietel with a rw ke* knif' A m ; eer n one I O-ivi 1 K n is m t hi dent at Kn»nara a dav or two «inee He wen f down nn o 1 1 ah •iff for th * pnr *o?e of breaking thr ugh into his own chii*n He ea'neneross foul air, an I died before he was hr ni ht nn. M piw«. wh'l<t erne* rnf>in v n 1 (Virnman'pl, ha'l the tnp of his heel cpt off. IW.h «•" instantaneous Hism'te wns cp imis’v ’’’pirp I The \"p<v 7i a'sn.l in ' South RP’sh T»snrspp* O ''C'S tj i'l u v) tv" - e fwt.iMc’-R ' to

insar- a’l buildings bo'on an >to the An k 1 »r.,t Elitca’inn B>upl e fis ne- ’ 101), The sn-vev nf th- AVai na'e Plains R dl way is about to be commence).