INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 908, 12 September 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

I All the members of the New Zetland Legislature will receive free tick ts for the Sydney Exhibition seas m. The Antares has arrived in Port Chalmers from London. At the recent Dunedin election it is said that at least 230 plumpers went to one of the candidates. Mr Devine’s Ringleader is to be located at Oamaru this season. A young man named Peter We lder-poon has died at Mosgiel from the effects of an accident received whilst out shooting. He was in the act of loading his gun when the charge exploded and entered his thigh. At the Duntroon Ploughing Match last Friday the horses ami ploughs on the ground were valued at 1.5000. The Oamaru waterworks are estimated to cost when comp’ete LI 10,311. A New Zealand Punch has been started in Wellington. A woman named Evans has just been arrested in Melbourne for passing herself off ns a man for 20 years. Sue hoi been married to three different Women. The expenses of the police force alone in endeavouring to capture the Kelly have been over L 20,000 to the Government of Victoria, and the New South Wales Government has also been at considerable

expense. News from Gisborne, Poverty Biy, a.iys that some private speculators are going to send 25 Maoris, comprising IS men and 7 women, to the Sydney Exhibition to dance the “ hak a.” The sales of stud sheep in Victoria thi I year have been a long way under the aver- " age. hut the sheep were the finest that have ever been seen. The weather in Victoria s f ill keeps very dry, and great fears are eiilertaine i for the crops. Isaac Hinds, the father of a well k- o wn resident of this town in the ea< ly days, recently died in Melbourne, at the age of S2. A great find of gold is reported near Weii lington (N. S. W ) | Charles Ihdliy stuck up a farmer’s house at Strathmaton, Victoria, and attempted to i violate the daughter in the presence of her ; mother, but was prevented by the entrance iof two men, wh en ho hailed up. He escaped across the Murray, hut was cap tured. 2672 lunatics last year cost the Government of Victoria over LOd.l’OO lor maintenance.