INTERPROVINCIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1000, 17 June 1881, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

The whaling company formed at Auckland have bought the barque Espeoulador to cruize off the New Zealand coast. t A young man named Walter Willshirc Vause was sentenced to six months’ hard labor at Wellington, on the 14th instant, for stealing a watch and chain from the Prince of Wales Hotel.

On the 14th instant, at Timaru, a man named Riddell, a supposed lunatic, was brought up at the Police Court yeste dav, and remanded for medical examination, tie made a determined sttempt to commit suicide in his cell. He had by some means secreted a little tin gem photograph, with which he opened the veins of bis left wrist and inflicted two or three bad gashes on his throat. He is now doing well in a padded room in the gaol. Several employers at Auckland have recently been prosecuted under the Females Employment Act. Some were fined. A Christchurch telegram states that a bankrupt who recently failed tor L 173 included amongst his victims no less than ten newspapers and two printing firms. He was a laborer and commission agent. On the 13th instant, at Christchurch, a man and woman were arrested on a charge of stealing a number of articles from Port Chalmers. The woman was living with the man from whom the things are said to be stolen, and left him for her companion, with whom she walked all the way from Port Chalmers.

The unemployed aie still agitating at Timaru.

Two comets are now distinctly visible at Timam, one setting at seven o’clock in the evening, a <1 the other rising before the sun about five in the morning. At a recent meeting, at Auckland, at a meeting of carpenters and joiners, a resolution was passed fixing w iges at 10s per day and also in favor of Saturday half-holiday. The total receipts of the Industrial Exhibition lately held at Wellington amounted to 1.380, the expenses being L 220. A Christchurch telegram states that the West Coast conch, on a recent trip, had a rough time. The passengers had occasionally to assist in getting the coach out of the slough. As instancing the severity of the weather in the northern districts, ten head of cattle were found dead in a paddock near Amberley. At a recent sale of land in Attenborough township, near Timaru, some of the sections ranged as high as L 12.000 per acre. Recently, four men at the 17-mile beach (Greymouth) obtained 17 jibs weight of gold for one week’s work.