INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 931, 20 February 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

At Auckland tlie Oily Council have struck a rate of one half-penny in the pound as a free public lihrarv ra'e. .Mr Howe is not likely to fl >at the new Caledonian Company at Grahamstnvn, as the Auckland capitalists are opposing the scheme. It is stated that his Excellency purchased half the interest from the drawer of Foul Play in North’s L2OOO sweep on the Wellington Cup. A day or two since, at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Michael Murphy, a noted money lender, was committed fur tiial for obtaining money under false pretences. At Wellington the police have laid an information against the proprietors of various hotels, for breach of the provisions of the Employment of Females Act by allowing their barmaids to remain in the bar after 11pm. On the 12th instant, at Grahamstown. a man named Michael Sullivan was killed under the following circumstances lie, with three more, was cross cutting a log. when, without any waning. a kauri pine crowing on a steep hillside fell, hiding Sullivan, who was on top of the log, instantaneously. Ills mates, who lay under the log escaped A shatk 13ft. long was recently captured off the Government wharf at Ne'soa. On the I2th instant, at Kelson, a young girl named Annie Scaf-r. who lately cam* 1 to the Colony ns an enihoant, atiemotod to commit suicide by jumping off the wharf. At Wanganui, on the 12th instant, it was reported that the Govemniolitsnrveyor engaged on the Puketotara block, had been turned off by a party of armed Natives. The land in questi nis up the Wanganui river. The Natives to >k possession of the survey camp, and insisted upon the surveyors leaving. Another report reached town that shots had Icon exchanged between hostile tribes at M.irimnln Pahs have been formed, and shots exchanged. It is not known if anyone has been injured. Recently the Resident at Grahamstnwn ruled that bakers suing for bread should state the weight, and not the number of loaves. The railway employes at Clnistchurch are to he docked of their pay for their picnic day, and they are grumbling in consequence. The Lincolnshire farmers’ delegates arrived at Oamaru on the 13th install', since then they have made a lour of the district. A Sydney telerram dated the Kith instant states that some larrikins, in attempting to rescue some companions, would probably have murdered two policemen but for a grocer, who defenle 1 them with a piling. At Wellington tire police have laid an information against various shopkeepers for violation of the Employment of Females Act. According to the report of Mr Johnson, relieving officer, to the Colonial Treasurer, there are at the present time 577 men. of various trades, out of employment in Wellington. The Irish Fund in Victoria exceeds Llo.OfiO, and L 14.500 has already been remitted. The new steanvn- Te Anan made the voyage from Greenock to Melbourne in fifty days. Three men stuck up a trooper in plain clothes near Maryborough, (Victoria) recently, and a desperate struggle ensued, during which one man was severely cut on the fingers by the trooper and arrested. One of the others was subsequently caught. In Melbourne it is reported that British manufacturers are disinclined to exhibit there on account of the tariff, which they declare excludes their wares from that market. The subscriptions at Sydney for the Irish Relief Fund imw amount to L 15.000. The trial of the directors of the Provincial and. Suburban Rank 1 Melbourne) was to have commenced on Thursday last. At Wniwera, on the 16th instant, a man named Duncan M'Kenxie. while at Work with a reaping machine, fall off on the knife, and Lis loft foot was cut off. He is doing as well ns can he expected, under the treatment of Dr Eveleigh, of Clinton.