INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 905, 22 August 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Democrat is first favourite for the Mel bourne Cup. be Loup is firm at 100 to 5.

The Ma'-aval and Buiko. both from Lyttelton, have arrived in London.

On the 14th instant, a woman, 70 years old, at Auckland, was fined for drunkenness. She said she had taken her beer for fifty years, and hoped to drain many a ban el yet. A weekly journal is announced in the Greyite interest, called “ The Lantern ” Moss Jonas, auctioneer, Timaru, of the firm of Jonas, Hart, and Wildie, intends instituting proceedings for tho recovery of L2OIO damages from the Dunedin Mercantile Gazette. The population of New South Wales on the SOth June was estimated at 712,010 persons. A further fall of snow took place in the Ti naiu dis Got on the 14th instant. One man near Burke’s Pass states that he has not seen 100 of his flock of over 10,000 sheep for six weeks. On the 15th instant the Lance field branch of the Bank of Australasia, (40 miles from Melbourne) was stuck tip. The bank was robbed of LOCS sterling The police do not think the robbers were the Kelly gang. While the bank was being baled up a customer entered, with 1.200 in his pocket, who was also bailed up, but not robbed. It is believed the men were Scott, alias Captain Moonlight, and Nesbitt. Bofh men have since been captured at Sandhurst, and their names are Gray and Dowe. All the

money was recovered A bank officer was decoyed into the bush near Sydney, to look at a newly discovered reef, when he r ceived a murderous b'ow with the head of a pick. His assailant went and ransacked his house. Captain Hannibal Marks, pilot, and his son, were drowned at Taurangaon the 17th instant, through a boat accident. A portion of the Thames railway is to be let to Natives on piece work. The news of the successful floating of the Wellington Municipal Loan has given great there. A child 2J years old, named Bowden, was run over and killed on the Dunedin tramway on Monday last. At the inquest a verdict of “accidental death” was re-

turned. 81 horses have accepted for the Melbourne Cup. Le Loup is the only New Zealand horse left in it. There is no foundation for the report that the new New Zealand L 5,000,000 loan had been more than doubly subscribed in London.

A miraculous escape from death occurred at Malmesbury, in Victoria. A rifleman named Smith fired at the target just as a man named Arthur Hawker, the marker, ran in front without hoisting the danger signal. The bullet passed through his right side, inflicting a flesh wound. Smith made a bull’s eye.