INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 940, 23 April 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCI A L AND INTERCOLONIAL.

A Melbourne telegram of the 13th inst., states that New Zealand oats are slow of sale at 2s. 31.

Ids stated at Melbourne that Messrs Money Wigram and Sons’ steamship Norfolk will, on her next trip from England, go direct to Lyttelton and Wellington.

;An active canvas is going on at Grahamstown to place qualified persons on the roll, and it is anticipated that oUIIO electors will he registered.

At Wellington; recently, the proprietor of the Victoria Hotel was fined Lb for Sunday trading. It is stated at Wellington that the Colonial Insurance Company will declare a dividend (if 10 per cent. It is believed that the Retrenchment Committee of the Wellington City Council will recommend rigid economy in the expenditure and the cutting down of expense in every way. including reductions in all salaries and wages.

On the 14th instant, at Orc-ymouth, an elderly man named ,'ohn Henderson dropped dead in the Government workshop. It is supposed he died from heart disease. A crop of oats from the tarm of Mr J. White, of Warterton, hear Christchurch, yielded between 87 and 83 bushels an acre.

The ship Comodre, at Timaru, which sailed for London on the 14th instant, discharged and loaded over IG'JO.tons in nine working days, an exceptional amount of other shipping Work being done during the same time.

Considerable anxiety is felt at Melbourne concerning the ship Iron Duke, now 115 days out, and no signs of her arrival. Bhe left London on December 21st.

Samuel Simeon, an armed Constabulary man, stationed at Opunake, has been left a fortune of LoOOO by a relative in the South Island.

A telegram from Hokitika, dated the 15th instant stages that some six or seven shafts have bottomed on good payable gold at a new rush at the Forts, Okarito. The ground is proved about 40b fec-t in breadth and if others bottom who are sinking on the same line on gold, it is thought that a considerable rush will shortly set in. FromTimaru we hear that the settlers along the railway line are complaining of the destruction to live stock owing to the liuo being unfencod. Hardly a day passes but some animal is crushed oil the line. On the 15th instant at Christchurch, a boy named Arthur Cox, was committed for trial on a charge that he did on Easter Monday feloniously kill another boy. By telegram from Grahamstown—The Star states that it may not he generally known that the expenses of the Lincolnshire delegates wore borne by this Colony, and will amount to MOOD. Up to April 17th the receipts at the Exhibition since the opening have amounted to L 42.432. ... The subscriptions in Victoria for the Irish Belief Fund amounted to L2S.COO. On the 14th and 15:h instant 23,797 bags of grain were carried on the Christchurch line of railway. . At Oamani, Julia Paul, a prisoner in gaol under short sentence there, murdered her infant, eight month’s old, by' dashing its head against the wall of the cell. Bho has been reniaiided for enquiries as to her sanity.

A lire at Balclutha destroyed 1200 bushels of oats. At Oamaru, three stacks have been burnt.

On the 18th instant, at Wellington, the police made a raid on the hotels, and have laid informations against live for Sunday traffioy A Qfuojp.sland telegram states that auriferous country has been discovered in the Gulf watershed, and good prospects were obtained.

At Wellington, on the 20th instarit, a sharp shock of earthquake was felt at 12. 42 a.m. The direction was north to south.

On the 20th instant, at Wellington; the coal mine and property connected with the Wellington Company was sold to Captain Williams for L 4750.