INTERPROVINCIAL PROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 984, 25 February 1881, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL PROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

At the Police Court, at Wellington, on the 16(.h iustaUt, Mr William Howe, forty member of tue House of Hcprcsentaiivea for the Thames, was charged with having stolen 2s from the till of the Theatre Uoyal Hotel. He was Sentenced to 48 boms’ imprisonment.

Accounts frond the Temora gold-fields continue to he good. A Melbourne telegram states that the ship Herelord, wlncli was wrecked on Capo Patton, has been successfully floated. At Auckland, on the 18 hj instant, there were twelve case of typhoid feV&r and one 6t scat let le'er in the Auckland hospital. Ihe Caswell hound Marble Compand has been floated, and active operations are to bo commenced in Match; At Tim iru. the new grain is coining in rapidly in splendid condition. It is stated that the racehorse “Mata” has been sold for the sum of 500 guineas, and his destination India,

Ernest D. Wilkinson, Receiver of Land Revenue at Ilftweni, was charged on the 19 b instant with having embezz'ed 1.16 13s. the property of the Government Ha was remanded. A Christ bhllrohteleglnffi states that afew days since a littlogiil named Moore disappeared from her home, and has not been scon since. Sh> was seen, on the,day of her disappearance, In the company inf a wdixiAn fashionably ibeSsed, ami it is believed she has been decOked away ami kidnapped. A riimiber <*F IrUlnnm in Victoria have sent nongratulabdry telegrarrii td .Mr Partial 1. The South Australian G ivermrient has instituted a series of experiments with poisoned grain, to ascertain if it can be used in the destruction of rabbits. It is reported that the Puke of Manchester intends purchasing some Queensland stations. A Brisbane telegram stitfis that five escapees from Vc.w Caledonia have landed on Stradbrook Island, Moreton Bay, in amide fttite and nearly starving. Their immediate arrest has been ordered by the authorities. At Auckland, on the 2Ut instant, a cart loaded with a ton Of tirewool parsed over the stomach of a little hoy, six yearS did, without breaking his ribs or injuring his spine. It is believed that the t>oy will recover. The medical men consider the case a most renlarkable one.