INTERPROVINCIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 998, 3 June 1881, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

The ship 'Remington, lately arrived from London, brought a pack of harriers, numbering 12, for Mr Thomas Hamlyn, of Kingsborough. near Timaru.

On the morning of the 26th ultimo, the convict Butler, now in Lyttelton Gaol, made a murderous assault on a fellow prisoner with the leg of a stool, inflicting a severe wound on his head. They had some words on the previous day, and Bntier threatened him. On the day named be triad to get possession of a knife, and failing that, ho used the leg of the stool. Ho was severely punished and put in irons.

At Wellington, at the forthcoming Incensing Court four applications for new licenses will be made. It is understood that the police intend opposing the granting of any fresh licenses, on the ground that the hotels in the city are already more than equal to the requirements. The Hokitika Gas Company have declared a dividend of 7s 6d per share. The Bank of New Zealand shipped L2O, 000 in gold coin by the Mataura, which sailed for London on Saturday last. A Christchurch tqlegram states that advices have been deceived from England that the first lot of this season's wheat realised 48s per quarter in London. Miss Annie Carline, the victim of the Riverkead stabbing case has been discharged from the hospital, completely recovered.

An Auckland telegram of the 31st ultimo states that Captain Hume is inspecting Mount Eden Gaol. He proposes to com mence erecting a stone prison instead of the wooden quarters at present in use, doing a section each year. At Wellington, during the month of May fifteen declarations of insolvency were filed.

The agricultural statistics for the Provincial District’of Canterbury show a decrease in the yield, as compared wilh the previous season, of 8,500 tons of potatoes, and 3,400 000 bushels of oats.