INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 986, 11 March 1881, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

The Island Lily, which arrived at Lyttelton a few days since from the Chatham Islands, brings information that the harvest is the lincst ever known there. On the Ist instant a child named Violet Robertson Hied in a railway carriage between Ashburton and Timaru. .. At the;iu-quest-a ..verdict of'. .“Death from natural causes’,was .returned. At Melbourne. «>n the 2nd instant, a discussion took place in the Assembly on tho question of prosecuting the Arcus for its criticisms on tho action of the Government, but the matter was allowed to then without any decision Ui»g come t«.

An Adelaide telegram states that three hundred volunteers of that city have offered to proceed to the Transvaal for service against the Boers. A cricket match between tho Australian team and a combined eleven of New South Wales and Victoria was commenced at Sydney on the 4bh instant. The combined team in their first innings made 197 runs. The Australions scored 49 runs with tho loss of one wicket. At Napier, on the 4th instant, Madame Betti Wilmot assaulte 1 the editor of the Telegraph with a riding whin in the street, at the same time saying, “ That is for the insult of last Monday ” The allege ! insult was contained in a notice of her Lecture on “The Devil," which stated that it was valueless and uninteresting. A number of men have taken passag'B for Sydney from Timaru, to work on the railway contract of Mr Proud font, A company is being formed in Melbourne to undertake the refining of sugar. The capital will be IdOO. . At Auckland, a young man named H. Edwards has been sent to the Lunatic Asylum, for threatening to burn down the offices of the Union Sash and Door Co. Details regarding the Ceiberus disaster state that the gig left the ship at the Heads to exolode a charge, and that dining the preparation of the woik an oar fowled the wire, and, although the battery was not connected, an explosion was caused, when, as already reported, the boat and the whole of its occupants, save one, were blown to atoms. Authentic information has been received in Sydney from the Mount Poole gold-field to the effect that, there are SCO men on the ground, and that the yield is to the load. The t hinese have been denied access to the ground. Only twenty of the miners are known to be on gold.

The cricket match between the Australians and the combined team resulted in a win for the latter by 246 runs.