INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 893, 30 May 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Allandale House, Forbur.y, was destroyed by tire last Thursday. Tho house and furniture wore insured, hut the loss is estimated at L2OOU more than tlic insurances. There were 10.1 failures in New Zealand during the week ending Saturday, the 17th Hay. ; Spofforth and Evans- having,declined to go, the projected cricket- team w ill probaldy fall through. Mr Conpland, au old Coromandel settler, is dead. Tho brigantine Sir Isaac Newton -has been wrecked oft’Noumea, New Caledonia. The French pilot, who was in charge, iu a fit of vexation jumped overboard and was drowned. Mounted Constable Bullen was severely kicked in the thigh by a horse at Whare, near Auckland, last week. Michael Ryan, a gum-digger, has been charged at Grahamstown with stabbing Patrick Nolan, a bar-keeper at Tararua. The case is adjourned for a week. The Resident Magistrate at Christchurch has decided that tho owner of a house is liable for the scavenging rate. Gleich (bankrupt) and Cowan (bigamist) have been remanded from Wellington to Adelaide. A Mrs Heabam, at Christchurch, accidentally smothered her child on Tuesday week. Joseph Taylor, aged eight years has been drowned in the Wanganui River. Gisborne Robert Cooper, a Native land speculator, and John P.rodie, were arrested at Wellington last Friday, charged with a broach of the Arms Act, in supplying a Native with a gun and ammunition. They were allowed bail. The Agent wmn the Now Zealand Grand National Steeplechase at Oam aru on Saturday last, Royalty being second, and Eversley third.