INTERPROVINCIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1004, 15 July 1881, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

H. Ba'field was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for attempted robbery at the National Bank at Tauranca.

At Wellington, the police are still enforcing the provisions of the licensing law regarding Sunday trading. At Auckland, the Detached Squadron Oi. mittee have obtained a guarantee fund of 1450 for ex|iense.s in the rcc. ption of the Princes. They expect LoOO.

At a recent meeting of the stewards of the Auckland Pacing Club it was resolved to endorse the decision of the V.!!.('. in the disqualification of Mata and the jockey Fay.

At Wellington, on the 8' hj instant, the Oovernment received a cablegram from the N.B.W. Colonial Secretary, stating that a fresh case of small-pox had been discovered at Glebe, a suburb of Sydney. On the morning of the Bth instant, a mao named Iloss, was found dead in his room. Death is supposed to have been caused by tile fumes of a stove fire, as a bird in the room was also found dead.

One hundred passengers left Invercargill on the night of the Sth instant by the special train laid on in connection with the Dunedin Exhibition.

An Invercargill telegram states that a valuable mare has been poisoned at Winton through eating phosphorised oats. The Southland County Council recently voted L 250 to the local hospital, 1,25 to the Benevolent Institution, and half of the total expenditure of the Tarnrua Committee.

The first crushing from the prospectors’ claim at Waihi, of five tuns of quartz yielded 220z. 17dwt.

Typhoid fever is very prevalent at Christchurch at the present time. There are several eases about the town, and at the Asylum the state of matters is alarmingone of the attendants there having died from the effects of the same.

At Auckland, Bindon Bros, have been found guilty of arson. Sentence was deferred.