INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 890, 9 May 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Mr Graham Berry has had interview with the Prince of Wales. The latter regretted that he would be unable to he present at the Melbourne International Exhibition. The Victorian Government has bought Mr Monck’s premises at Wombat for conversion into a police station, During the month of April there were 104 births, 36 deaths, and 31 marriages in Wellington. It is rumored in Christchurch that two well-known theatrical managers are negotiating the purchase of an interest in a weekly paper issued at Christchurch. During the four weeks ended April 30 39 vessels, of an aggregate tonnage of 6,500 tons, arrived at the Port of Timaru. A man named Alfred Parker Brown attempted suicide on board the steamer Wellington on a recent passage up the coast. At a recent sale of draught horses at Totara, the pr ices realised were from 18 to 90 guineas each.

Shes-s. Albion from Melbourne on the 29th Itimo experienced a tremendous gale, and Bennie, the helsman, was washed overhoard and drowned.

The Government are offering a reward of 1.500 for the conviction of any person guilty of fire-raising in New Zealand. This is in addition to tbe reward offered by the insurance companies.

Tims. Elliott has been committed for trial for horse-stealing at Riverton. The final list of the Otago Floods Relief Fund is just published. The final total i 8 L«237 o<2d.

The Wellington Council are not going to ask the banks to tender for their banking account.

A crested grebe was recently taken alive at Wadiola and presented to the Dunedin mnseum.

It seems understood that Sir Hercules Robinson does not intend to run any horses iu this Colony. 'the ease of tbe Otago Harbour Board v Proudtoot is to be taken to the Court of Apneal. The Directors of the Union Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand have decided to postpone due dales of calls Nos. 7 and 3.

At Leithtield, near Christchurch, on Saturday, a lad named Predk. Shrimnton, 16, was killed by a fall of earth in a quarry, if) tons of earth fell on him, breaking every bone in Ids body. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.

The body of the wife of Roderick Hugh M‘l •erman, who was recently arrested in Wellington for forgery, lias been exhumed, and her stomach sent to the Colonial f.aboratorv for examination. Dr Hector has satisfied himself of the presence iu it of arsenic in large quantities. Camelia won the All Aged Stakes of the Metropolitan Coursing Club of Otago, value LSO. Briton (runner-up) L2O. A public meeting is to be held in Wolling!on to con-ider tbe advisability of establishing a public library.

A man named Blankera has been arrested at Ashburton charged with forging the signature of the County Clerk to several cheques. Since his arrest it has been discovered that he was wanted in Dunedin for larceny. He had previously passed valueless cheques in Christchurch. A young woman was arrested in Auckland on Tuesday, charged with leaving her infant on the footpath in .Wellington street the previous night, wrapped in a blanket, with a feeding bottle. The poor infaut, when found, was soaked with rain.

The sentence of death passed on the Hatfield bushrangers has been commuted. They have received a lengthv term of im prisonmeut, three of thenrin irons.

The Melbourne City Corporation have decided to expend L 2500 in planting 'he streets of the city with shade trees during the winter.

Typhoid f vor has been rather prevalent in Melbourne and suburbs.

The carpenters' strike in Sydney has cod lapsed, mainly through the firmness eibi bited by the Premier.

A man named Cunningham was run over by a train at the Jetiy street crossing on Tuesday, and killed instantaneously.