INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 946, 4 June 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Thu Gnzithe published in Adelaide states tb it over 10) Chinese died in tho Northern T.rrilo-y in three months, on whom no inquests wee held.

For a clerkship of Llsoa-year In'the Education Board Office at Auckland, there are 91 applications. At Invercargill, on the 20bh ultimo, at tho District Court, Thomas Flynn, bootmaker, Gore, was found guilty of fraudulent bankruptcy, and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Judge Ward, in passing sentence, said that it was the most deliberate attempt to defraud creditors that he had met With A bigger fool had not come before the Court. The Mormon elder Shrew will take a hatch of converts to Salt Lake by the next mail boat from Auckland. They come from Australia and Canterbury principally. At Napier, on the 24th ultmo, Kereka. the Native charged with burning another Maori, was committed for trial at the Supremo Court. A whale recently’ towed into Sumner yielded 440 gallons of oil.

At Christchurch, on the 28th idtirao, at the police eon rt a man was sentenced to 24 hours’ imprisonment for running off with a receipt which ho had obtained previous to handing over the necessary coin. A stamp was on the receipt, value Id, which fact was held to constitute the act a larceny’. At Invercargill, the rabhiters are offering to undertake the extermination of rabbits free of ciiaige. The rabhiters assert that they are making a good thing out of the so-called pest. An association has been formed, and offers prizes for the best exhibits of skins, and manufactured furs are to be forwarded to the Melbourne Exhibition.

All Auckland telegram of the 29:h{ultimo states that a serious disturbance took place the day previously at which, but for the arrival of .Constable Brennan ami the constabulary, might have resulted in a general riot. It occurred from a Patella's interference at a Maori tamjl Captain Raymond, a large runholdor in the Southland district, publishes a letter in which he fassms that phosphorisc-d oats without iliodium is a’poifect spccitic'for the rabbit nuisance. His laud was thoroughly cleared at the rate of 500 acres in three days.

The race for the professional Intercolonial Scull'ng Championship took place on Saturday hist, at Melbourne, and was won by Laycuck, of Sydney. Mr 11. Pay has disposed of his training establishment and racing stud to Dr Prins, of Christchurch.

In consequence of the insufficient amount of shipping, grain and potatoes arrive so fast at Lyttelton that large quantities have to be stacked in lha open in the railway yard, and buyers have been obliged to beg the farmers to delay delivery to allow accumulations to bo cleared of}'.

Heavy deliveries of grain are still taking place at Timaru.

There are now 51 entries tor the Midbourne Cup, and 25 for the Champion Stakes, including Mata and Camballo. The Southland County Council on the Ist ultimo, resolved to discontinue the employment of a solicitor, thereby adding costs to the judgments for rates sued. The County Clerk appears for the Council in future.