INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 936, 26 March 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Mr David Syrae, proprietor of tho Melbourne Age, has initiated an action against {he proprietor of the Melbourne Punch for libel. Damages are laid at LSOOO. A meeting has been held at .Melbourne, at which it was resolved to form a company for the purpose of exporting every description of food under the freezing process. A Sydney telegram states that the s.s. Chanderuagore has arrived there after landing a colonising party at Now Ireland. It is understood that two steamers with 1000 adventurers were '■ to’Jollow shorly from Italy and Barcelona. The original prospectus of the expedition states that it is intended to appropriate North-western Australia. On the ICth instant, 270 loaded waggons went through the tunnel to the Port, and 234 to Christchurch. The Australian cricketers sailed from Melbourne on the 19th instant for England by the Garonne. An instance of cheap labour was shown on the IStb instant in the Amberley Court. Two able-bodied skilled blacksmiths were summoned for debt, and pleaded that they were working merely’for food and whatever their master was'pleased to allow them. The barquentioe Jasper, from Mauritius, reports passing a large dead whale 10 miles south east of the Snares. It is ‘understood that Victoria has declined the proposal to join New Zealand in the search for the survivors of tho Knowsley Hall, who are supposed to bo wrecked on the Crozets. At Brisbane the law points have been decided against the bushranger Wells, and the sentence of death will be carried out. At ShoHland, on the 20th instant, Hotorene, an influential chief of the district, and father to VVhi Taipara, the leading chief of Hauraki, died. He was enormously rich, and leaves LIOOO to be spent on his tangi On the 19ih Instant, 1039 loaded waggons passed through the Christchurch station to and from Lyttelton. This is the heaviest day’s work since the line was opened. The number of bags of grain carried on the Christchurch section and branches for the week ending Friday, March 19th, amounted to 90,082. Notwithstanding the large traffic, no block has] occurred on any of the lines. By telegrams dated March 22nd from Melbourne states that heavy rain has falling throughout Victoria. —Application has been made in the Supreme Court in Bauco against Mr David Syme, proprietor of tho Melbourne Age, for contempt of court in commenting on an'action for libel which ho had brought against the proprietor of the Melbourne Punch, while the case was still sub judice. Hanlan, the Canadian sculler, has seut a cable message to Trickett with reference | to the latter’s challenge to meet him in j England. Hanlan says he cannot possibly j proceed to England to meet Trickett. j The Candcrnagore, which recently arrived here from New Ireland, where a colonising party was landed, has, after some difficulty, obtained her clearance for Liverpool, and will sail shortly for that port. She will however, again visit New Ireland. On the 20th inst, at Christchurch, the police and some larrikins had warm work at midnight on Saturday in a lane off Gloucester street. A prisoner was rescued from a constable, who was severely handled. Help having arrived, four of the larrikins were arrested. In the libel case tried at Christchurch —Stead v. Otago Witness, none of the defendants, except Mr Fenwick, the Managoiug Director, showed up. The case was, however, withdrawn against^them, and Mr Fenwick was committed for trial. On the 22nd inst., another destructive fire occurred at Guthrie and Larnach’s mill, which was burned down on the 11 th inst. The sawdust heap, which had been smouldering since, burst out yesterday, and destroyed about 60,000 ft. of sawn timber. The fire is still burning. A Wellington telegram states that the river in the Wanamatu has risen 58 feet, and is flowing over the bridge, which, so as to avoid the possibility of its being covered, was constructed eight feet , higher than any flood ever known previous to itsjercction.