INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 945, 28 May 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Betting on the Adelaide Cup is 3 to 1 against Savttnaka. tttld 4to 1 against Lord Harry. A youth named B ill, at Sydney, has been arrested under warrant and committed for trial on a charge of offering Sir H. Pai'kes, the Premier, the sum of LSO as a consideration for the Premier to secure him an appointment in the Civil Service. The Harbor Board at Auckland have resolved to communicate with the Hon. Mr Brassey, president of the Board of Trade, with the view of urging the suitability of Auckland as a dealing station and depot for the South Pacific fleet.

The Melbourne Argus, discussing the present state of political affairs, admits that Mr Service must experience a difficulty in carrying on the Government in the present Assembly, owing to the defections from his party.

At Christchurch, on May 20, the s.s. To Anau left Wellington, and shortly after leaving, a little fellow six years old was found on board. He had stepped on hoard to look about, and remained till after the steamer had started. On arrival at Lyttelton, a gentleman took charge of him, and sent him back in tlio Taiaroa.

At the District Court, Tokomairiro, on the 19th instant, before Jillge Harvey and a jury of four, the case of David Thompson v. Bishop Nevill, for L2OO, value of an cngine in the pottery works, resulted in a nonsuit being ordered.

A Grahamstowu telegram states that a whale 85 feet long went on shore a few days since on Piako bank, and died. It has been since brought to town by a sfcamer, and the finders expeet to make LJ 50 from the oil.

On one of the city reserves .it Nelson, situated within a stone’s throw of the railway, indications of coal have been discovered. The scam is about 10 feet thick, and has been followed over 100 feet. The coal, so far, is not of first-class quality, but is said to be exceptionally good for gas purposes.

The Victorian Government has offered LSO reward for the discovery of the perpetrators of the Knowsley Hall bottle hoax. A Napier telegram of the 22nd instant states as followsMr M. Hi Miller’s annual report estimates the exports of wool from Hawke’s Bay for the currant season at LoOOjOOO, being an average of L3G per head of the population of the province. The average for the whole Colony was Lll. The average clip was nearly seven pounds of wool per sheep. A large anti-Chinese meeting was held recently at Melbourne. The Melbourne Argus in an article points out that the number of Chinese in Victoria has largely decreased of late years, and that serious competition by them with Europeans is impossible. The stock of coal in Melbourne is so low that all orders have been suspended. The supply is barely sufficient for immediate requirements.-

The whole of the Orient Company’s boats are being fitted with refrigerating machines.

The Melbourne Exhibition Commissioners decided, by a majority of one, to allow Chinese to compete in making GOOD chairs for the Exhibition, from which they were excluded by a recent advertisement. Coulthard, the man in New South Wale'-j who, sometime since, confessed to having murdered his wife in England, now retracts, and says he made the confession while suffering from sunstroke.

The Ho". W, J. Clarke has promised his patronage and assistance to the scheme for sending Victorian ploughmen to compete in England. Trial competitions will take place shortly. Mr Allison, of the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, is dying from letamls, caused by a trifling wound in the thumb, the result of a pistol shot fired on the stage.

Irregularities in the accounts of the chief clerk at the Sydney Exhibition Lave been discovered. A sum of LSOO cannot be accounted for. Several factories in Melbourne have been compelled to stop working, and business is seriously impeded for want of coal. In consequence of the strike in the collieries at Newcastle, several steam vessels have been detained at Sydney for the want of coal.

Private telegrams have been received in Sydney from America, containing information that Hanlon has formally agreed to row Triokett on the Thames in November next. Trickett starts for England immediately. A minor was recently circulated in Melbourne that the Kellys had been see i at Chilteru. The police mustered, but it proved to be a camp of four honey-seekers. The race for the Adelaide Birthday Cup took place on the 24th instant and resulted as follows Banter, 1 ; Harry, 2 ; Savanaka, 3. A protest was which was decided in favor of Banter.

An Auckland telegram states that on Monday last rhe following scene was enacted on the racecourse there : Malvern got his leg caught in the scoria stones, and a broken leg resulted. An attempt was then made to kill him with an axe. The handle broke. The animal’s head and face were fearfully hacked, and the horse remained writhing in agony for some time till a second axe was procured.”

By telegram from Wellington, dated the 25th instant, it appears that an extraordinary and startling piece of information has just reached the Government by a special ofhcial telegram from the Government of New South Wales. It is that a telegram has been received by the Governor of New South Wales from the Governor of Bombay that a steamer named the Genie, flying Liberian colors, left Aden on the 2-lth ult., professedly bound for New Britain, having on board large stores of arms, ammunition,

provisions, and a numerous crew, comprising persona of various nationalities. The object of her mission is not disclosed, but from scraps of information received before she left Aden, it is suggested that she is bound on a piratical or filibustering expedition ; and a further supposition has arisen that her operations wore to bo carried on against either some Australian and New Zealand to vus and settlements, or else against the Anglo-Colonial shipping trade, by intercepting gold ships and other valuable prizes. The information at present to hand is only of a very vague nature, hut it was considered of sufficient importance to warrant the Government of Bombay in sending a special warning by cable to the Australian Governments, with a request that they would fass it on to New Zealand.