INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 883, 21 March 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Mr Docherty, of the Dusky Sound Copper Mining Company, has arrived in Dunedin, and brings news that the lode of copper has been s'ruck.

The Hon. VV. Fox is in Dunedin, taking pmt in the New Zealand Temperance Alliance movement.

Tile Catholics of Auckland who took the pledge from Fa'-her Hennebery, are mooting a proposal for another procession.

The Auckland schooner Blanche has been wrecked on "enhyrn Island. The officers and crew escaped in boats. .She was insured in the New Zealand Office for Ll3 0.

J W. Noble, carpenter at Aratnpu, in Auckland district, committed suicide by hanging himself last week. The Wellington Athenaeum Committee have decided to open 'he Athenaeum rooms on Sundays from 2 till 5 in the at e noon

Th • body of the boy Johns, who was missing from Wellington, was found floating in tfie harbour a day or two am The Education Depart,went estimates the number of children of seh 'Ol ace in Wellington at 2172 boys, and 22;i1! girls The State sch‘ols p-nvide aeuminno lation for 1385 bias and 11-10 gi Is

The Ma ijuis of Norraanby is making himself very popular in Victoria.

Acco dint to a Wellington contcmp .rarv, the reason Sir Hercules Kobinsmi disposed of Ids coaching stu I is that he was unwilling to ri-k valuable horses in the narrow streets of Wellington, with tramways runmug through them.

It was stated at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association last, week, that during the season reapers and binders had been introduced into the Province at a cost of considerably over 1.100,000 ’('tie first silk loom ever imported into New Zealand is now at work at Mr Mazcy’a, Colombo street, Christchurch. For the St. Leger Stakes of the Southland Coursing Club, 31 nomimtions have been received.

Larrikinism is rampant in the public domain, Christ, hnrch, and the police inten 1 to take s'eps to put it down. A man named J. L. Joseph, whilst hunting pigs at Malvern last week, was rushed by one and severely bitten. Isaac Wo,« 1, seaman on the steamer Waipawa, was washed overboard cm the 12 hj iust whi’st crossing the Hokitika bar. The NS W. Legislative Assembly have passed a Bill imposing a poll-tax of LID on the Chinese,

The Lurline, from Lyttelton, has arrived in London. A further extension of time for making valuations under the Land Tax Act, from February 28;h to March 28:h, has been gazetted.

A fire broke out in Cohen’s jeweller’s shop, Lambton Quay. Wellington Inst Friday The damage may roughly be estimated at L2OO to the building, and LIOUO to the. stock. It was insured A steamer has arrived at Port Darwin with Chinese. She reports another thousand Chinamen now on the way, and will arrive in about ten days.

A respectable married woman was last week, in Christchurch, knocked down and criminally assaulted by a man named Win. Manners. He was afterwards arrested.