INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 943, 14 May 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dr Hector has bought the diamond drill which was shown at'the Exhibition at Sydney. Very valuable deposits of tin have been discovered on the Tate-river, Brisbane. At Melbourne, a day or two since, in reply to a deputation ot farmers asking that a policy of protection should be adopted against admitting New Zealand grain into Victoria, the Hon. Mr Service offered no encouragement that anything of that na: tine would f-e supported by the Government.

A Melbourne telegram of tiro 6th instant states that the Australian cricketers play their first match in England against Hampshire on the 13th instant.

On the Gth instant, at Sydney, at an anti Chinese meeting, Mr Melville, the new member for Northumberland, declare 1 that he would stonewall the Assembly on the Immigration and Chinese questions. News has been received at Sydney from the Barrington diggings that a crushing of two tons of quartz had yielded 190oz. of gold. A telegram from Hokitika states “ A small party of miners, writing from Big Hay recently, state that they are earning about 35s per week each. They add—“ As there is any quantity of fish and game, w? can live for about 7-s or Ss a week. It is a wonder some of the unemployed do not conic down here in place of hanging about the towns. They ..fight pint in the winter here very comfortably.” Fifty thousand pounds having boon subscribed at Melbourne. The Meat freezing Company will immediately commence operations.

The barque British Queen, which loft Charonto on January 20th for Melbourne, put in at the Capo owing to the crew having mutinied and broached cargo.

At Sydney, New Zealand oats at 2s 3J per 401b. A Melbourne paper states that a bottle has been found on the beach at Portland, containing a paper signed “John Webster, ” and dated February 21, ISSO, sta! that the ship Knowsley Hall was wrecked on the CTozets, and that all on board perished except three, who are destitute, and are subsisting on fish. Doubts are generally expressed as io the authenticity of the message.

A meat-freezing company, with a capital of H100,001) is about to be started at Sydney. . .

A meeting was held at Brisbane on the 7th instant, for the purpose of starling a meat-fre-zing company, towarls which L.SJ 000 has been subscribed. The Irish Belief Fund i.j now closed, the total amount subscribed being L31,G75 The recent decision of the Melbourne Exhibition Commissioners tn call for tenders for chairs, excluding Chinese labor from competing, is causing much discussion in the Pr ss. The Bank of New South AVa.es has declared a dividend of 17i per cent. Llo,odo is added to the reserve.

It is estimate! that during the current month the Canterbury railways will carry 1,000,000 sacks of grain for export. A groat scarcity of coal exists at present in Melbourne, almost reaching a famine, owing to the strike of, the miners at Newcastle.