INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 949, 25 June 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

On the 16th instant, at Auckland, James Ferguson and James Pollock were fined 5s and costs for aiding and abetting cocklighting. The Bench declined to express an opinion as to whether cockfighting should be approved or reprobated. An Invercargill telegram states that the particulars in the matter of the Hon. 11. Campbell’s abandoned run are that it has been taken up by a company of eight rabbders.

Messrs Money Wigram have decided to withdraw from the Australian trade, and are not going to sell their vessels. At a meeting between the brewers and publicans buhl at Wellington on the 17th instant, the former stated that they were determined to adhere to their first resolution, that the tax should be charged upon the customers.

Thu International Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens has been handed over to the Victorian Commissioners.

An inmate of thehospital at Auckland, named W. J. Harris, dieil on the 20th instant, aged 102 years. The report of the Civil Service Commission lately published occasioned considerable comment at Christchurch.

Several informations against publicans at Christchurch for allowing gambling in their houses have been recently laid by the police.

llabbitskius have increased in value at Invercargill one halfpenny per pound. Stock and Co., local merchants, are buying them for export to the United States, where a domain! has sprung up. The Kakanui Meat Preserving Works have sent an order for several thousand rabbit carcases at fourponce per pair.

A novel mode of opening libel proceedings was initiated at Christchurch a few days ago. A locil evening and an upcountry paper published strictures on a report that a Drainage Board officer received a percentage on imported pipes. The Solicitors for this officer have addressed the editors of these papers demanding the name of the person who instructed the insertion of the articles in question. The papers alluded to have since been making fun out of the request. Nows has arrived at Sydney from Xew Guinea that the natives west of the island had attacked a number of villages on the coast, and had killed and eaten 00 women whom they had captured. Several cases of selling drink in prohibited hours, and allowing gambling in licensed hours at Christchurch, came before the Bench on Monday last. In one instance for allowing “ a shilling in, and the winner shout,” a publican was fined LlO, and the Court expressed a determination to put down the practice. A telegram, of the 2lst instant from Invercargill states that some parties working alluvial ground some thirty miles up the Waiau River lately came to Riverton to sell gold and to get miners’ rights. They let out that they were working on an area sufficient to employ 500 men. 100 men of the Victorian Navy have been dismissed.

The Sydney Government have offered a reward of LIOO for information that may lead to the apprehension of the Qnirindi Bank robbers, and a similar amount is offered by the Bank. 23 Mormons left Auckland for Utah on the 21st instant.

Amongst the objects of interest exhibited during the Carnival in Dunedin, not the least was tho head of a wild boar, sho vn at Mrs George Grant’s stall. The weight of the hoar (whoso capture and death on the Maungatna Ranges two years ago by Mr J. Richardson’s party formed the subject of no little exci tement) was about 4ewt.. and the skin on the shoulder was an inch and eight-tenths in thickness.