INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 990, 8 April 1881, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

The Orient Company’s s.s. Lusitania, 'from Plymouth, is bringing out a large •quantity of frozen fish to the Colonies. A Sydney telegram states that Commodore Wilson, commanding the Australian squadron, has made arrangements for a naval review and sham fight on a scale of great magnificence, and that the mamcenvres are to be carried out on the I2fch o! April.

In view of offer L3OO for r, prize for a sculling race, to be open to all comers. The offer is to be made in connection with Walker’s whisky, or which Messrs Mason are agents. The revenue of New South Wales for the past quarter amounted to L 1,393 000, bsing an increase of L 464.000 compared with the amount for the March quarter of 1 ist year.

On the 2nd instant, the premises of Messrs Webster, jewellers, of Swanston-street, Melbourne, were entered by burglars, and watches and jewellery to the value of LI 000 were abstracted. A London telegram, received at Melbourne on the Ist instant, states that the Pacific mail steamer City of New York, which left Auckland on the Ist March, has not yet reached San Francisco, and is a week overdue. A steamer has left San San Francisco to search for her.

Lady Gordon was a passenger by the Lusitania lately arrived at Melbourne. The Australian team of footballers will visit New Zealand during the forthcoming season.

His Excellency the Governor of Victoria is very ill.

Mr Sergeant, a Victorian M.P., has been sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for assaulting a brother M.P.