INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.
The be’ting on the Victorian Champion Race is 3‘o 1 against Fits* Kang. 5 to 1 against Wellington. 4to 1 against I’etrca, G to I against Mercnrv Upwards of a hundred passengers lately arrived wy the Orient at M.-11-ourn**, from London, tran-hipped to the Rotomahaiia for New Zealand. An Invercargill telegra*n states that the crops are beginning ,o suffer for the want of r un
On Sunday the I4*b instant. two cirK age 15. fought, with their fists, nearly piked. in the presence of a muh, in a low suburb of Sydney The fight was apparently pm arranged.
O i the 18th instant, the Al'nirnia Cora party ol)taiit"il, nn retorting, 5790z of gold, the produce of four days’ crushing. At Syd,.py the full Court has confirmed the conviction of the bushrangers. Hecent.lytwo tfiiioese le|iers were discovered in the outskirts of Sydney. One died, and the other has : >cen isolated. At Auckland the weather has been very w>th easterly gales ami almost, confraiiuous rain.
' The Big Pomp, at Orah ants'own, with appliances, was sold on the 19th instant for LI3OO to Cameron, tnana -er of the Moana taiari mine L 20.000 had been expended on works and plant, an I valued at L 25.000 Late news from Auckland states that, jt is feared the continuous wet weather will injure the crops.
A Wr.llington telegram of th 20th states that, owing to heavy rains this morning several shops were flooded. Hill, the hospital steward, charged with inderent assault on a female patient, has been trie" in the Distiict Court at New Plymouth, and after a two days’ trial, the jury could not agree, and were discharged. The prisoner will he tried again. On December the 18th, at Carterton, F. Gole, county clerk and treasurer, tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat. It is not yet known what instrument he used, but it is supposed that it was a bayonet. He is fearfully cut, but the wounds are not thou dit to he fatal (rule has been a Good Templar for some months, but vi laled his pledge a few days since.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 923, 26 December 1879, Page 3
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