INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 900, 18 July 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

A little boy, eight years of age, name:! Goodall, son of a widow, was playing yesterday afternoon on Madras bridge, Christchurch and fell into the river head first, floating down the stream face downward. John Tasker, a butcher, was passing and jumped in. He dived twice before he got the boy, as the latter had sunk. He cot safely to land, and had the hoy attended to before he restored him to bis mother. M r Tasker, Jteu years ago, recovered a child from tiro at the Buller, and afterwards saved the life of his mate, named George Kirkland, who fell out of a canoe.

Morton Quin, late district Secretary to Foresters, Wellington, has been arrested and remanded on a charge of embezzling funds of the Order.

The financial prospects of the Colony of Victoria are depressed. The chief Ministerial organ states that the Treasurer will probably admit a deficiency of not less than L 200.000, with the prospect of an increased deficiency, which will necessitate additional taxation of between L 350,000 and L4OO, 000.

The statement made by the Age to the ef feet that Kate Kelly interviewed the captain of the Victoria Cross with regard to the passage of some persons to California is without foundation. No one connected with the outlaws saw the captain. The Sydney Evening News states that Sarah Calc, the paramour of the murderer Greenacre, who was many years ago executed in England, for the revolting a woman, is just dead. She was transported to Sydney and married, and became eminently respectable. Many shops were shut as a mark of respect on her death. The London Times’ statement that the Prince of Wales comes in the Serapis to visit the Exhibition is contradicted. Mis Fraser a keeper of a brothel in Melbourne, has died, leaving LSD,OOO sterling to her relatives. Mr Tytherly, M.L.A., Victoria, was charged on summons at the City Conit with assaulting and garroting Or Black. The case was dismissed on a technical objection but has been referre 1 to the Supremo Court. A son of a prisoner now undergoing live years’ bard labor in Melbourne gaol, for wife assault, inherits L20,0U0.

It is rumored that the inhabitants of the northern part of Ashley County, Canterbury are dissatisfied with the local government, ami propose to takesteps for absorption into another county. A quarryman at Halswell, a few miles from Christchurch, named William Bettridge, was killed on the 11th instant. A rope he was suspended from, on a face while at work, was cut by falling boulders, and he fell hbirt.y feet. He was quite dead when picked up. He leaves a wife and two children. The publicans at Christchurch are panic stricken at a peremptory order from the police to close all the rooms attached to licensed houses at 11 o’clock. All hotels in Canterbury are supposed to close at 11, though many never do, and the billiard rooms as part of the hotels are now to close at the same hour. The reason of the present mandate is susposed to be the revelations made regarding the sale of liquors in rooms after hours, which came out in the caso in the Police Court a few weeks ago. At Invercargill a baker was summoned by the police for having sold a light-weighted loaf of bread. The case was clearly proved but the Magistrate decided that he had no power under any Act to inflict a penalty. Buyers of bread must guard themselves by seeing the bread weighed before receiving it. Mr W. J. Clarke’s agricultural chemist considers that rust in wheat is an intermediate stage of mildew, arising generally from irrational farming. The “ female Blondin ” performing a Newcastle fell 30 feet, and was severely injured. The Colony, of New South Wales with an acreage of 233, 252 acres, prodeed 3.439, 326, bushels of wheat last harvest, showing an increase of 993,819 bushels.