INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 915, 31 October 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

A man named James Wells has been committed for trial at Ashburton for committing assault with intent ou a little girl five years of age. Excellent prospects have been obtained at 130 ft in the Young Ireland Co.’s shaft at Wetherstones. The programme of the New Zealand Rifle Association’s second meeting has just been issued. There ai'e 20 matches, aud LIOOO will be given in prizes. Montefiore and Montetiore, of London and Sydney, have failed for a very large amount. The first of the new wool clip has arrived in Timaru. During the quarter ending 30th September 29.509 money orders, and representing L 101,441, were issued in Now Zealand. The amount of postal revmiue received for the third quarter of 1879 was L 32.562, or L 4012 more than the same period last year. 336,GG1 telegrams were sent in New Zealand during the third quarter of this year, and the revenue received for the same was L 17.700. On the 28th instant, at Grahamstown, a man named Vause, was found dead in his residence, shot through the heart. His carbine lay beside him, he had evidently committed suicide. Forty-throe horses paid up for the Melbourne Cup—the same number as last year. Hie following are the latest favorites—Secundus, Savanaka, Richmond, Wandering Jew, Sweetmeat, and Lo Loup. Sir C. Cavan Duffy intends retiring into private life shortly. It is rumored that a gentleman largely interested in mining at Sandhurst, Victoria, has sent to Cornwall for 3)0 miners, paying expenses of the voyage and guaranteeing work at stated wages. The Kynetou Banks have boon warned to be on th" alert It is rumore I that it '9 the intention of the Kelly gang to stick up the town. They are believed to have left their hiding, and to be making for that district. The Rotomahana made the passage from Wellington to Syndey in three days ten hours,