INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL

Dunstan Times, Issue 911, 3 October 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL

On the 30th June last 'here were 978 ijachines of various descriptions a* work in ti'ii Colony, which use steam as a motive pi«er "ilson, recently a traveller for Marshall aid Copeland, brewers, Dunedin, has been arrested in Sydney on charges of embezzlement. jl'ss Fidler’s School of Cookery in Auckland has been largely patronised during the pa«t month The Invercargill has arrived at Port Cha mers from Glasgow. X[o Victorian Government is likely to levy an annual license fee on the insurance companies instead of stamp duty policies. Increased duties on bankets and boots are affirmed. The manager and directors of the Provincial an 1 Suburban Bank (Victoria) are to be cbaro ei l with conspiring to defraud the public. Thoraa ß Webb, 15 years of age, accidentally handed himself at Sandhurst while perform!Jo gymnastic exercises. A you o -? German named Femike, sentenced tov s ‘ x months’ imprisonment and two floggirig* for a gross case of indecent exposure it l Melbourne, hanged himself in ga d in a mvst determined manner. Bristds, a! Melbourne Cup winner and a great ratio j mare, accidentally killed herself near Get!*J"ng. The worn-/ 11 Vansman, the man impersonator. is gradually regaining her senses. She confessed* to a long deception. AvchbishojP Vaughan states that if the Catholics ail® refused paym-nt by results for denomi Jational schools, colleges would be gradual IjV established. A farmert at Towilta renorts fin ling a diamond worth a fabulous amount L Srevemson and Sons, warehousemen, of London a}i 1 Meb ourne, have suspen eel payment. /-labilities, L.300,000. The Melbourne partner states I bat so far as the Melbourne hlouse is concerned no stoop,age will occur, fluid that all engagements will he met as thky accrue. The suspension of the London) house was the result of the break in tide cable preventing aivices of heavy special remittances being received a day too lit £ Since theßpening of the Sydney Exhibition the attendance has been inconsiderable. Fresh exhibits, are constantly being displayed, an 1 Ja visit to the basement showed that it wifA shortly present a second Exhibition scarcely inferior to the existing display on the nfiain floor. A man nainjed James Smith is in custody in Dunedin cniarzed with murder, he having ill-treated bill wife in such a way as to cause her deatVh. The Criminal} Sessions commence in Dunedin next Moutlay. There are six ca-es as follows Mu may. rape ai Dunedin ; Richardson, assault} and robbery at Dunedin; Reid, embezzlepnent at Dune lin ; Waters, arson and mur\der at Dunedin ; Rocard, catilo stealing tit Waikouaiti; Hawkins, embezzlement at* Dunedin