INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 928, 30 January 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

From Melbourne wo hoar chat theGippsland bushranger has surrendered.

At Adelaide, on January 2Lst, the heat was intense. The thermometer registered 113 in the shale. At rimiru the Mormon converts are selling oil’ right and lett. The exodus to Utah takes place in April. A practical discovery rendering the forgery of bank notes by photog-aphy impossible has been discovered by a Sydney eheni'st

Thirty-six Chinese residents of Sydney subscribed tog-th-r th < «im of Llli towar ts the Irish Relief Fund

A Sydney telegram of the 2‘2ud states that four m-n wort seen tampering with the telegraph line nea •15 m ill i. They ha I horses near, an t ir is suppose! they were the Ke 1 vs. The inspector, some constables and black troopers have started in pursuit Samples from a supposed new copper lole at Coromandel have been sent to the Government for analysis. Nearly every steanu-r arriving from the East has Chinese passengers for New Zea land.

At Sydney, on the 23' d instant, the wife of Mr Dixon, ex-Coloni.il Treasurer, shot lie-self in the head with a revolver.

The Melbourne Government contemplate large dismissals in the Land and Survey Department.

At Tim iru, a well-known publican and another person were caught on the night of the 23rd instant by the Government curator trout fishing in the prohibited portion of the river which runs thron ;h the Domain Gardens. An information has been laid against them.

AtTimarn, ou the 23 rd instant, two men name! Reilly ami Robertson were committed for trial on three charges of lullin’ av robbery, two being with violence. Both men are well known in Dnneilin, ami it is believe'l the police hive mv.le a very important capture. Shares in the new tailings venture in Gabriel’s Cully, are about being placed on the market.

At Ashburton, ProfessorW.illenburg has successfully treated, gratuitously, at the request of the muster, a number of patients in the Old Men’s Homo, who were given up as permanently blind. Two have now left the Home with their sight thoroughly restored, and will consequently be no longer a Intidcn on the Covernmcnt. A man, named floulthard, has surrendered himself to the p dice in New South Wales, stating that in the year 1878, while he, was a chemist at Kverton. in England, he poisoned his wife, weighted her body, and threw it into the Mersey. He shortly afterwards emigrated to Australia, and assorts that he is wretched, and now sees visions of his wife nightly.

At the recent execution at Syndey, Scott died instantaneously, but Bogan struggled for ten minutes. Scott wrote incessantly during the greater part of the preceding night. At his first interview with his mother and sister, Bogan behaved brutally, using disgusting ‘an mage to them.