INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 924, 2 January 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

The wool show at the Sydney International Exhibition was the finest ever seen in the Colonies. There were 400 exhibits. Mr Joseph Aarons, of Wellington, won the fl r st P‘ ize for the best bale of combing wool in gre se.

The Sydney Executive Council have He ciiled that Williams and Bennett shall be imprisoned for life, wi hj three years in irons ; and the others will he hanged on the 20th J uiuary.

The Alburnia Mining Comiany, at Grahamstown, will have 4i)00oz. for the month’s work.

A'ylney telegram states that Father Ghmoquy will shortly proceed to New Z aland. He states that he has netted L 4.700 on his Australian tour. An Auckland telegram of the26th ultimo states that the Rev Joseph Berry, and Messrs Foster and Grant, the Lincolnshire deputation, will visit the Waikato distric early next week to inspect the land for the Lincolnshire farmers. A whale, measuring 25ft was captured recently at Oamaru. A Sydney teleg am states that a railway collision occurred at Parramatta. Tho, express train from Hawkesbury ran into a waring passenger train Six persons were injure I. and several carriages were smashed The cause of the collision is unknown. The traffic manager was aboard the engineAn inquiry is to be held. It is un lemtood that some material retrenchment will be introduced about the Now Year, and that a strenuous effort is to be made 'o improve ‘he paying capabid- ies of the •■•always —Wellington telegram of the 27 hj ultimo

KeO' iitly at Sp inev two New Caledonian convicts m,vie a desperate attempt to rob a jeweller .mini; homeward with a bag of valuables. They s' uffe,l his mouth and eyes with cayenne pepper. He resisted sturdily, cleared his mouth, and cried for help B i'h were captured. In the intercolonial cricket match New S mth Wales scored in die first innings 139, and in the secon 1 103 Victoria winning in one innings with 9G runs to spare. The wheat crop at the Cape has failed 20,000 tons of wheat and flour tire required. At Christchurch, on the 29th ultimo, 14 men were charged, before afuil Bench, wit hj riot and assault on the 27th, and were all remanded till January 2nd. The town is very quiet. The special constables have instructions to meet on New Year's eve.

It has been decided to collect subscrip. tions in South Australia, to relieve the di». tress in Ireland.

In Queensland, at Pine river, a Mack bushranger named Campbell has appeared, ana robbed several houses. A Sydney telegram states :—“ It has transpired at Hongkong that the police have been in the habit of shipping crimi'’a's 111 Australia at the. rate of 40 at a time From the same source, it is reported that English officers are training Chinese troops for the. I! ussian frontier

At Timaru the Orangemen have determined not to hold a procession on New drear's Day. but to do so within a fortnight Four arrests have been made of the principal rioters of the 2Gth ultimo.