INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 942, 7 May 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

The Melbourne Government have received a telegram from Mr Childers, resigning his positions as Chairman of the Board of Advice and as Agent General for Victoria in London, owing to his acceptance of the Secretaryship of State for War in the new Ministry. An Adelaide telegram of the 25ih nil., says;—“ Owing to the prevalence of diptberia and measles in Victoria, passengers arriving there from Melbourne arc placed in quarantine fur twenty-lour hours. On the 23th u!t., at Auckland, J. Pound was arrested on the mail steamer at the instance of the Timaru Police authorities, on a charge of leaving his illegitimate children unprovide I for at Timaru.

On the 23th ult. at Wellington, two pub Loans were lined -IDs for Sun lay trading.

G irdiner, handle- d of the Sportsm -ns’ A mis at Saltwater creel:, was prosecuted, for supplying beer and brandy to a drunken man, but the case broke down. A telegram of the 2Sth ultimo, from Invercargill states “On Monday a heap of stones was placed on the Otautan Railway at a point where the down train would run over them near to Fairfax, but the obstruction was noticed in time. The announcement that passengers from Melbourne will bo quarantined at A lolnido is deemed premature, as there are only a few case of*measles in Victoria at the present time.

Mr Charles O'Neill, C.E., has instituted proceedings against the Corporation of Wanganui, claiming L2OOO damages for the infringing his patent for Caithness flagging. The Lyttelton Harbor Board are about to erect a jetty at Lyttelton for the use of the townspeople At Auckland, on the 30th instant, S, Coombes was committed for trial on the charge of embracery, At Brisbane it is reported that COO Chinese a>-e preparing to proceed to the Coin gold-field, which has for some time been abandoned owing to the blacks and the difficulty of transport. On the 30th instant, at North Palmerston A man named Pat Maxwell was riling on the railway line, when the engine overtook him, and struck his horse, killing it instantly, and seriously injuring the mail. But faint hopes of his recovery are entertained.

At Sydney news has been received that a steamer with several hundred foreigners tor the colonisation of New- Ireland, has been sighted in the vicinity of that place. An Auckland telegram states that Commodore Wilson, of the Wolverine, has received a cable message that the training ship Atalauta has arrived in England, all safe.

The beach at Wliangarci Heads is thickly strewn with dead schnapper. The cause puzzles local savants. At the 3rd instant, at Auckland, Sarah Dixon, recently W.C.T. of the Good Templar Lodge, was brought up for disorderly conduct while under the influence of liquor, and was fined.

The Mayor of Melbourne has offered a prize of L 20:) for an essay on the best scheme of underground drainage for Melbourne. The Daily Telegraph states that Mr Graham Berry, who lias severed his conn; ction with the Dec-long Advertiser, is about to start a new daily paper in Melbourne, which will represent the interests of the Liberal party.

The Irish Famine Relief Fund at Sydney now amounts to 1.27,-100.