INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 888, 25 April 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

A man named Fred. Hollyor dropped down in a tit in Christehuich last week, and died immediately. The Mayor of Wellington has called a public meeting for the consideration of the establishment of a free public library. The Sydney bold Cup was won by Savanaka, Chester being second, and Bosworth third. A cheque for L 330, paid to the contractor of the new hospital building, Lawrence, was dishonoured last week by the bank. The Hawke’s Bav County Council have decided to vote 1.500 towards the erection of a vew hospital. Moore, who has been prospecting for gold in Wellington, states that he has found several auriferous reefs within the Hutt County. He asks the Comity Council to either give him a subsidy of 1,500 for each payable quartz reef or alluvial gold-field he may discover during the n-oct three years, or to guarantee him the gold duty arising therefrom for the next 15 years.

The Gubernatorial party recently expressed the opinion that the Opera House, Wellington, was superior to any similar building in New South Wales.

It is understood that Father Ryan, a Marist brother, has off re 1 to the Natives, if they will give him an endowment of 200 acres of land, to educate all the Native boys on the East Coast free of charge. The proposition is regarded favourably by the Natives and the Native MinisterGeorge Hamilton, whose stacks were recently burned down, has been, by the R.M. Court at Ashburton, committed for trial on a charge of iiicengbudsm. The Rev l)avi®£Jorclon has received a unanimous call to tile pastorate of the Popotunoa district.

An enormously rich quartz reef has been struck at Carrington, only 40 hours’journey from Sydney.

The four men who were recently arrested for taking part in tin- late prize fight, have been is-hnged, as the police failed to prove li off nec wo a p iz • tight.. Conway is trying to secure the management i 4 the Now Suit.ii Wales learn of cricketers fot Eng’and. It is generally tin ught that he has very little chance, as there is some unexplained feeling against

him on the part of the leading New South Wales cricketers.

In the next Melbourne Cup the second and third horses both receive L2OO added money. The value of the Champion Race has been reduced from LISOO to LIOOO.

Fourteen hundred men are working on the Sydney Exhibition building. ° There are 25 entries for the Christchurch Champagne Stakes of 1880. A boy named Arthur Dowell was killed hy a kick from a horse recently in Auckland. The discovery of a lode of copper near Masterton is reported. John Morrison has been sentenced to six months’ hard labour, at Oamaru, for brutally assaulting Isabella Johnson, with whom ho lived. Mr Wason’s resignation of his seat for Cambridge is gazetted. Vital statistics for March show that the total deaths were—Auckland, 23 ; Thames, 5; Wellington, 54 ; Nelson, 3; Christchurch, 1!) ; Dunedin, 315 ; Hokitika, 4 ; Invercargill, 7. The majority of deaths were caused by diarrhoea and dysentery. A meeting is to be held at, Masterton (Wellington) to consider the advisability of bringing the Rabbit Act into force in that district. Some stations are almost practically ruined by the rabbits. A great demand for female servants exists at Wairarapa. Four vessels have been eharteied in Melbourne to take 1800 tons of flour and 1600 tons of wheat to Callao, owing to the war in Chili. The Hatfield bushrangers have been sentenced to death. The judge gave no hope of mercy, and recommended them to prepared for the worst. Mr J. T. Selby, one of the oldest settlers in the Waipawa district, has committed suicide by hanging himself. At the Police Court, Blenheim, on Monday, Stevenson, an hotelkeeper atßenwiek, was charged under the Statute ot George 11. with disposing of a pair of ponies and carriage by lottery. It was contended for the defence that the statute was not in force in New- Zealand. Judgment was reserved for a week. The Victoria Fire and Marine Insurance Company has declared a dividend of L 3, and resolved to wind up and divide the assets, which amount to L 250.000, and start a new company.