INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 906, 29 August 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

From Melbourne ave hear that the Lancefield Bulk robbers have made full confession.

Two hundred and eighty-two tons of Victorian exhibits have been forwarded to

Sydney. A large steamer has been chartered in England to convey a trial shipment of fresh meat from Australia to England, prepared by Beil and Coleman's dry-air refrigerator process. The total cost is estimated at 1| 1 per pound. At Gisborne, on the 20th instant, an old Nat ve named Hennre was charged with having caused the-death of a boy by witchcraft.

An unexampled scene of violence took place on the IGth instant in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, between Mr David Gannson, and the Hon. .T B. Patterson, when the former accused Patterson of cattle stealinc, called him a-whelp, a onr, and a scoundrel, and bandied threats of violence. The Lancetield hank robbers say the accountant was tilled with abject fear, and the inhabitants disgracefully the same.

At Sydney, Botterell, inventor of the wreck-raising apparatus, proposes to form a company and raise bullion-ships on the New Zealand coast.

Some time ago two guineas was offered as a prize to the first who flew pigeons from Dunedin to Christchurch. On the 21st instant, Mr Donoidiue, of Christchurch, sent two birds down, tadrui were liberated at S o'clock in the morning. They arrived in Christchurch at 1.45. p m., thus taking less than six hours to do 230 miles. On the 22nd instant, a fire broke out on board the ship Amazone, at Sandridge, she lad to be scuttled. Great damage vas done to both ship and cargo. She had only just arrived from Liverpool.

A collision -occurred on the 23rd instant in Hobson,s Bay, between the s.s. Claud Hamilton and the barque Eden. Both were

damaged. The Bismarck, German war-vessel, has arrived at Sydney with exhibits. A Brisbane telegram states that tho Gympie coach had been stuck up by an armed man, who took a quantity of jewellery, which was afterwards recovered, but the man had not been arrested.

On the morning of the2stb instant it was discovered that the notorious prisoner Hall impri-oned in the Mew Plymouth had escaped during the night The railway oliicials at Lyttelton have been examined in-order to ascertain whether any were afflicted with color-blindness.

Miss Fidlei’s introductory lecture at Auckland on cookery was attended by 500 ladies.

Cavlotti Patti is expected to arrive in Melbourne in February with a good company.

The Ngaruawahia flour mil! was burnt down on the 2Gih Instant. Insurances—engine and house, 1.2 U0 in the New Zealand Company ; reinsured for LISOO. The population of New South Wales on June 30th was 712,000.