INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 971, 26 November 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

At Auck'aml, E Sward I.vsaght, a recently I’iseharge 1 pri-oncr, for conveying letters for prisoners to friends outside, got two months’ imprisonment. At Grahamstown, on the 18th instant, a son of Mr Swanson, member for Palliament, was hound over to keep the peace in the sum of 1.1 0 for Htilling The Union S vanisliip Company offer a reward of 1.50.) for the disc-ov, i v of the 'I ararua go : d robbery. The s.s Pro "ns with a cargo of fr”zen meat, has sailed for England from Melbourne. Coal is reported to have been found on the Harbor B lord's pr ’party in Lyttelton. The Cricket Association at Christ church have decile Ito offer the Australian Eleven half the teceipts of the natch fr.-m nil sources, the expense of advertising to be divi led eqtia'ly, and tlm Eleven to pay their own expenses while here. S leaiing hj is commenced at Tapanui. The clip p onlines to he a heavy one. On the 20lh instant, one of the Maori prisoners, who hj is recently bean very troublesome on llipa Island, was removed in irons to Lyttelton gaol. A Sidney t“lcgrum states that the Oui rindi Bank roblwrs hj ive hee . sentenced to twelve ye irs’ imp isonincat. A black snake about 18 inches long ws found recently in the lobby of the i-esi l-nee of Mr Edward .Smith, manager of tbeC mimercial Bank, Williamstown, Victoria. Thu cat Was playing with it. Sir George. Gtey’s health is greatly improved At Ttuiaru the weather is very hot, and rain is badly wanted. At Oamani, on the 2)th instant, a man named Thomas Anderson was arrested, an I on bein'searched a set of burglar's tint’s were found on him. He was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. Thu Weather in the O nnaru di't r ict is verv dry, and rain is much wanted. The weather is very hot and dry in the Chris church district, hut the crops look splendid. A trout weighing 211h was caught in the river Avon on the 22 nl iusb-mt.