INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 960, 10 September 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

A Brisbane telegram states that diamonds have been discovered at luverell.

Ned Kelly, since bis committal for trial, begins to realise bis position, for in conversation he has stated to the police his full belief that he w'll be executed.

His Excellency left Wellington on Saturday last for Sydney. The reported discovery of gold in tho northern part of this Island lias caused great excitement at Christchurch. At Melbourne, further retrenchment is taking place in the navy The local artillery will shortly bo abolished. At Auckland, on tho 2 id instant, Hnlm, the proprietor of the Provincial Hotel, rw charged with allowing gambling in his house. Inspector Partly said the police were determined to put a stop to gambling in hotels, which had already bioii the cause of the ruin of numbers of young men in Auckland.

The fifteen gem pnzz’o has at last been put to u satisfactory use. The gaoler at Lyttelton has given it to the Maori pii noners. They are quiet. The Customs duties collected at Lyttelton during the month of August amounted to L 18,182 7s"d.

At Invercargill, on the 2nd instant, four boys were sentenced to flogging and imprisonment for stealing fowls. It is expected New Zealand exhibits at ihc forthcoming Melbourne Exhibition will be very good, there being GOO exhibitors.

The Dube of Manchester arrived at Adelaide on the 3rd instant.

Curing the passage of the barque Ann Mclhuish, from Newcastle to Wellington, a passenger named Tynan jumped overboard ami was drowned.

The whole of the samples of brandy collected by the police from the publicans al- - have been analysed, and found to be unduly diluted with water. Summonses will be issued.

The ship Eric the Bed has been wrecked at Cape Otway. She had on board the American exhibits for the Melbourne Exhibition. One passenger and three of the crew were drowned. The Melbourne government are continuing to make reductions in tbo Public Service. Many of the officials will be superannuated, including the Chief Commissioner of Police.

The Sorata, one of the Orient lino of steamships, which arrived at Adelaide on 3rd instant, and left for Melbourne on the same day, has tone aground at Cape Jervis, Kangaroo Island. The vessel is in a dangerous position. The passengers wore all landed on the island. The revised scale of wages of the railway employes, gives great dissatisfaction, and an uneasy feeling seems to prevail among the men in consequence, 500 tons of American exhibits were on board the wrecked ship Erie the Bed.

It is feared the Sorata will become a total wreck. Shoii being dismantled, ami li r cargo discharged. 11 is Ijolieveil that the Exhibition goods are safe. On the Gth instant, at Auckland, Henry Hulmes, proprietor of the I’ rovinci.il Hotel, was lined LIU and costs for allowing gambling in his house. Recently, at Auckland, out of 15 unem ployed who applied tor work there were hut four who wore willing to take 15s a week and found. A Wellington telegram states that the Sorata has settled down. It is anticipated that some 1500 tons of her cargo will be saved by transhipment.