INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 955, 6 August 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

At Goulburn, N.S.W., Mr Woolfe, butcher, recently killed the largest pig ever killed in the colonies—its weight was 9G2 pounds.

Young men in Melbourne arc adopting the practice of wearing the colors of their football clubs, as a kind of “ order” on the breast of their coats. This is absurd enough but some young ladies arc sporting the colors too in the same way. In the Victorian House of Assmbly, Mr Lcvien, member for Barwon, lias given notice of the introduction of a Bill to reduce the salaries of Ministers by one-third. The Court-house at "Wanganui was, on the 2Sth ultimo, burglariously entered—there was nothing taken. An attempt was made to open the safe. It is thought the thieves were after documents, and not cash.

A heavy shock of earthquake occurred on the 28th ultimo at Wanganui, tho heaviest felt for many years. Several chimuics suffered.

At Timarn, on the 29th ultimo, a roan was accosted by a stranger, who asked the time, and immediately ran off with the other’s watch. One Charles Williams has since been arrsled for tiro offence and remanded.

The Auckland Gas Company has declared a five per cent dividend. Tho price of gas is to be further reduced shortly.

At Christchurch four seamen of the ship Annabel refused to go to sea on the ground th it the vessel was unseaworthy. A survey 1 a( been ordered.

Whi'e on her voyage from Hekitika to O imam, the schooner Lizzie Guy lost overheard the mate, Cornelius Laird. A heavy sea was running at the time, and it was impossible for any effort to he made to rescue him.

The man Greer, who shot at Ids wife and the Frenchman Soundry, and afterwards shot himself, at the Opera House at Melbourne recently, has succumbed to his injuries. Mrs Gveci and Soundry are recovering from their wounds.

At Gisborne, on the 31“t instant, the severest shock of earthquake was experienced that has occurred for years. There was no damage done. The police reductions commenced at Wellington (.u the 31sft ultimo. Seveial police stations in the country districts have been done away with.

The Melbourne Exhibition is to be opened on October Ist.

The police in Canterbury and Westland are to be reduce 1 by one detective and ten constables. The reductions commenced at Christchurch on the 31st ultimo.

The child which was a fortnight ago bitten by a pig at Timaru' died in the hospital '•here on the 30ih ultimo from blood poison-

At Timaru-the Customs duties for July amounted to L 2-112 as against L2OBI for the corresponding mouth of last year. Der Australier is the name of a paper started a short time since at Toowoomba. There are now two German papers running in Queensland. According to latest mail ulvicos, rumors that the Prince of Wales is coming to Melbourne are still current, but are muuthsntio. The Sydney Government intend to test three refrigerating railway ears--English, American, and Colonial—during the ensuing summer. At Auckland, on the 3rd instant, Mr Stovm, of the Bank of New South Wales, lost a roll of notes, amounting to L 270 between his resilience and the bank, which has not been recovered. Daring the mnnlb ot July 114 vessels, of the registered tonnage of *25,472 tons, entered Port Lyttelton.

Thirty-three applications for the post of Engineer to the Timrirn Waterworks' have been received by the Timaru Borough Couu-