INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 886, 11 April 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

A cooper name 1 Mitch* l !! Martin was found drowned in the V.'ashiyke, South Canterbury, last week. Thomas Walker, the trance medium, is engaged to he married :o a French lady at present residing in Australia. A chess ciuh has been started in Auckland. A gentleman living near Wellington recently adve rtiaed 1,5000 to lend, and in a tow hours afterwards lent the money for three years at 12 per cent. Typhoid fever is very prevalent at Waimato A fishing b at has been picked up on the Thames Hirer, all the crew of which are supposed to be drowned. The Auoklau I Star estimates Sir Julius Vocel’s commission ;or floating tho New Zealand Agricultural Company would amount to L 7,500. •

Intelligence received in Auckland by the last mail says that the appointment of a Homan Catholic bishop for Auckland has been left to the B 'nedietino Order, and probably an Englishman will be appointed. A man known as “Yankee Jack” has been drowned at North Wairoa Ur Norton, of Dargaville, Auckland, fell from his horse last week and sustained a compound fracture of the leg.

Schwartz, connected with a recent fire in Christchurch, has been committed to take his trial at the next criminal sessions at Christchurch.

The revenue of South Australia for tho last quarter shows an increase of 1.09,0110. A special telegram in the Morning Herald says that the cutter Sarah Jane is supposed to have foundered in Fuveans Straits >m Fiiday last, when coming over with oysters. Thu names of the crew were Charles Anderson, Henry Scanbm, and Thomas Homer.

At tho t'obce Court Dunedin, recently, William Dirties was committed for trial for having set lire to his In >usc at Saddle* Hill. The notorious “ Bristol House” in Cumberland &tr< et, Dunedin, was destroyed hy fire on Sinn lav niulit.

tender nf Messrs Millar and Smillie, for an extension of 700 feet to the 0 imam breakwater, has been accepted for L37.SSS. The Directors of the South British [ti surancc Company recommend the payment of a dividend of 15 per cent An elderly man, Gauge Moulds, whilst working alongside the Wellington wharf on Saturday, was struck on the leg by a plank which the wind blew from a pile of hoards. A severe compound fracture of the lea was the result. °*

An eight-roomed dwelling-house, occupied and owned by Mr Colin M'Kinnon, at Invercargill, was burnt to the ground a few days ago. Nothing was saved. It was insured.

/Hie stoker of an engine was killed on the Kaipara Bail wav, Auckland, on Friday, by a water tank falling on top of him while wat' ring his engine. His hack was broken, and lie ill d s..on after.

A petition against Chinese immigration from the working men of A tick and e mtaius 3COO signatures, and is over 50 yards brng A man named Hugh M‘Kinnon was washed off a raft at U'angaroa, near Auckland, and drowned. A man was recently exempted from serving on the gran., jury in Wellington, on the ground tb it he was a schoolmaster. The Christchurch Corporation have resolved to erect a Town Hall, to cost about IjSD.OOO

At Auckland, this week. Sheldon, alias Fidget, formerly an officer of the army, was found guilty of burning ha vs Lacks, and sentence was deferred. 556 more Chinese have arrived at Port Darwin.