INTERPROVINCIAL

Dunstan Times, Issue 1034, 10 February 1882, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL

Missrs J uibeit ami Twopenny, intend holding a grand com e itive musical festival lasting a week, during tlie exi' ition. Gold, silver, and bronze medals wil be awarded lor class s iiging, band contests, vocal and ins niineutal s diis, so und children's glees Tue eoni|jetition will be open to the whole Colony.

The Coroner’s Jury at Queenstown foun 1 Wa 1 1 1 muin gully of aisoll m having .set lire to his stoic in Ba larat street in that town on January 2.1 ; and lie has also bun coin mitud for trial by the Justices at 11m local Court on the charge of attempting Losetli.c to Ills bouse on the 'Ter acc.

Mr Hunt has arrive 1 in Wellington from F ji, with a vLw of commencing legal proceedings against Sir Arthur Go. don, as High Commissioner, for hi> illegal arrest. Mr Henry Glap -ott lias b en appointed general lecturer of the colony to the GoVernm nt liisiii unco Ucpm tinciit. It is intruded to icvisc and push the indusliial pait of the business.

A proposal has been male to the City Council, at C.n istcluircli, to utilise the Maikct Reserve, at pre-ent almost wasti d, ly building 87 shops, at a cst of over 1.0000 bringing in an estimated icveiiiie of over L2OUO. The Council does not view the pro-po-id, however, with favour, Tue police have been making a raid on sly giog sellers, the means of <!e cc.ion bring two c instiibles dn ssed in plain clothes, who entered the houses and died for drink as tliongb ordinary customers. In one case a hoarding-house keeper was lined 1,2). The ke-per of an eating house was able to p ove that he got the money for the drink and sen! out for it to a neighbouring hotel, charging Is. per bottle f-r bis trouble, which tlie Bench held to In- a valid in inner of conducting business and sufilm-nt defence. In another in-lance a m in entere I a boardinghouse ib nnk. an I was supplied with more liquor, which defendant produced witnesses to s rear he had sent to an hotel for. The II M. said it was a most disgraceful ease, but on the evidence he coulil not convict. Tim defeat of the Caiitorburv team at Dune in was not uu xpecte !, and caused no disappointment, among cricketers at least. The licomcd Yictu tilers of Chris'eluiri hj have agreed to take action in conjitetiou with the remeseii'a ires of the various Temperance Societies of the city to endeavour to prevent a contested electi"ii over the appointment of Hi u licensing bench for the ■lisuiet. A j -bit committee lias been foiined to select live to be elected to the office ' The Exhibition Committee have passed a resobni in affirming the dedrahility of the G ivennneiit cxbibi in ■ everything that will sh w tlie resources of the colony, and the me uu hi li ■ to ad .pted by the Govcrnm nt for developing them The (.lin'd man was requeue I to a-k the Pre-n er to arrange wiih Mi ssrs J.mbe-t and Twopenny for the necessary space

The sale of tlie Whakmpokn block, by order i f the Regis'rnr of tlie Sumcrne Court, took place today. This is tlio land over which an iinp.ii-lant trial took place in Napier, mnl snl seqn irly in the Appeal Court, Wellington Tlie sde was in default of tin- paynn nt of the principal and inteiost Mr Percival Bat kin nought it in for £15,000.