INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 972, 3 December 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

7u the intercolonial rifle contest Victoria ■won by 129 points. GoM prospecting in tlie Charleston district is on the increase, and there have been several new finds, including quartz specimens. Mr W. G, F ix, late police inspector at Invercargill, has been apminted clerk and treasurer to the Wallace County Council A Victorian telegram states that Mrs Jones, of Glenrowan, hj is been c nnmitte I for tri d for harboring the Kellys. At Sydney, Messrs Tomkins and Pringle have been summoned by the police for p tmifting Kate and .fane Kelly to exhibit themselves on their premises. The case lias been adj m ne 1 for a week. In a case at the Auckland police court on the 251h instant, it transpired that a bnsliman named Stanton came into town to sec the circus, and knocked down L 63 in three days in beer The funeral of Sir Kclmond Barry took place at Melbourne on the 26th ultimo. New Zealand oats have boon sold in the Melbourne market lately at 2s 7d per bushel. The market is improving, owing to the new duties. A nugget, weighing nearly ten ounces, has been found recently in the alluvial workings at Longwood. A hoy of ten years, who was sent to the Timaru hospital for medicine, but took the opportunity to carry off a watch and other jewellery belonging to the surgeon, was, on the 26 ah ultimo, sentenced to three hours’ imprisonment and a caning. Sir Ly°ter, of the Opora House, Melbourne. died on the 27th ultimo. Shocks of earthquake were felt at Wei. lingtou and Christchurch on the 27th u1ti...0. It is stated that the Australian Eleven have accented the terms offered by the New Zealand chibs, and tint the team will sail for the Bluff on January sth. Telegrams fro o Oamarn and Timaru state that the recent rains will do a vast deal of good to the crops, and cannot he o ‘or rg invite I. , The inquiry into the stranding of the s s fiorata at Capo Jervis is now proceeding at A lelaido. Mr Justice Birry died of carbuncle in the neck, after an illness of a few days only. At Sydney, a meeting has boon called for the purpose of endeavoring to provide funds for Leyeoek in the match against. Haulan for the championship of the world. Lurdargievn, manager of the branch of the City Bank at Sydney, has been arrested for "mh"zzlcment of gold valued at 1,990. The Australian team in the match with AleUi lo won by seven wickets. The Confo enc" which is now sitting in Me'honruo is making favorable pm re«s, aud ; 3 giving fuller scope for extending the

,in‘vefs uf the Federal Council ill dealing with legal q lesthma, mails, and defence. IV.iposals are made for establishing a Fe Icral Court of Appeal. The Intercolonial Conference has adopted the res dntion in favor of a .Supreme Court of Appeal in the Colonies, and a treaty of extradition of absconding debtors and wife deserters. The Conference will meet at Sydney about Christmas. The s.s. So rat a will shortly sail from Adelaide for Victoria, r where she will be repaired''iu the Alfred Graving Dock at Wiliiamstowii. limiter's telegram announcing the opening of the Melbourne Exhibition, was received in London in 23 minutes after the opening ceremony. The total quantity of gold raised in New South Wales from 1851 to 1879 was 8,918, 9SG r/., at an estimated value ot L 33,042, 3G2 Sir H. Parkcs, recently in New South Wales, when spending on the Chinese question, remarked that as fast as one million of their military forces might bo destroyed in a war, their place would be name- lately supplied by another million. “ Like rabbits I” ejaculated an elector. The icsnlt ot the race between Ifanlan and Trickett was received at Sydney with crushing disappointment, throughout the entire community. Up to the 30tu ultimo the subscriptions I at Sydney towards making up the stakes i" the scull'iig match between Laycook and Hanlan for the championship of the world amount to 1.351. Reports from all parts of the Christchurch disti let state that the recent r.dns have been of immense benefit to all the farmers.