INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 953, 23 July 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

A Victorian telegram states it is thought that the inquiry the Victorian Government have ordered into the conduct of the police at Glenrowan will be more comprehensive than Captain Standish asked, and that the Commission will deal with the general organisation of the force. The Victorian Government intend to still further reduce the Victorian navy and to dispense with a number of officers. Kate Kelly and other relatives of the outlaw have been refused an interview with him.

It is stated that a splendid Austrian military band will attend the Melbourne Exhibition, where it is certain to prove a great attraction.

On the 14th instant, at Timavu, both men concerned in the late sticking-up case at Waihoa were brought up before the R. Mr at Waimate. Their names are Eugene Ford and W. Talbot.

Dr Moffat, ot Winton, was committed at Invercargill, on the 14th instant, to take his trial for manslaughter at the next sitting of the Supreme Court. Bail was allowed.

Mata is first favorite for the Melbourne Cup at a thousand to fifty. At Auckland, on the 15th instant, Mr Wickham, proprietor of the Free Lance, had his nose severely pulled by a member of tbe Froliques company for condemning their entertainment before seeing it as “ another lot of Yankee trash.” The other newspapers speak well of the performance. Mr Wickham did not get an advertisement which is supposed to he the cause of the animus.

A telegram from Ohinemutn, dated the 15th instant states—“ Although in the middle of winter the weather is glorious, and a number of tourists have been visiting the Lakes.”

On the 15th instant, at Saltwater-creek, near Timaru, a child two years old, son of a farmer named Wilson, was knocked down by a sow, gored with its tusks, and so severely bitten that its life is despaired of. Two fingers of the left hand were bitten through, and had to be amputated at the Hospital, while the head, face, and body are covered with lacerated wounds.

A Melbourne telegram states that—Ned Kelly continues to progress towards recovery. His demeanour is quiet. lie was again formally remanded on the 12th inst. for a week. He is not expected to appear in Court for a fortnight at the earliest. No one is allowed to see him, although hundreds of applications have been received.

At Christchurch 114 more of the unemployed Lave applied to the Government for work.

At Sydney, sixty sailors absent from 11. M.S. Raleigh and lI.M S. Wolverine without leave, are being searched for hy the police. Severe frosts on the Clarence River, New South Wales, have destroyed the sugar cane crop in the low-lying districts. The Govermnot have found work for COO unemployed, and 129 still remain on the books.

At Greymouth, on the 14th instant, Burns and party brought 2llb weight of gold, the produce of a fortnight’s washing by a party of four, at the Seveuteen-mile Beach.

From Hokitika we hear that the body of Mr Cowlishaw has not yet been recovered. Shipping business has been exceptionally busy at Timaru for some months past, and there is every prospect of its continuing. A Wellington telegram of the 20th instant states—The Savings Bank deposits for the quarter ended 30th of June last will show an increase of L 20,000 over withdrawals. For a Jong time previously the withdrawals had exceeded the deposits.

At Melbourne the banks have reduced interest on'deposits to 4 per cent.