INTERCOLONIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 138, 21 February 1874, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS PER OTAGO TO FEBRUARY 8. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT AVOCA. RIOTS IN LAUNCESTON. FEARS FOR WARBURTON’S EXPLORING PARTY. The following unpublished telegrams were unavoidably shut out from our last issue : — MELBOURNE. February 8. Bisfiop Perry proceeds to England by the next mail. He intends to resign the Episcopate. The Church Assembly has constituted the colony a province, and raised the stipend to £2OOO a year. Terrible murders have been perpetrated at Avoca. A boot and shoe maker, named Porter, cut the throats of three of his children, and then hung himself to u rafter of his own house. Owing to the breaking out of riots in Launceston, Governor Du Cane will probably postpone visiting New Zealand fur a time. W. J. T. Clarke's will, proved that his Victorian properties were worth over u million and n-hnlf. Todd's paramour, the woman Armstrong, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. The Land Department is making u vigorous crusade against dummy ism. The steamer Great Britain takes to England over 600 passengers. The firm of D. 8. Campbell and Co., wine merchants, has suspended payment. Liabilities £IO,OOO. SYDNEY. February 7. Mr. Hume reports seeing fifteen camels near the telegraph line five months ago; he supposes they belonged to Warburton's party, and believes the latter is lost. LAUNCESTON. Government is arranging to quell the riots. The mob perambulated the town, and broke windows and fences. Special constables have been sworn in ; 100 have been sent from Hobart Town. COLONIAL ITEMS. (FROM THE ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS AGENCY) AUCKLAND. February 17. The Mikado sailed yesterday evening for San Francisco, with 20 Auckland passengers, including Thomas Henderson, Esq., M.G.A., Mr. Hoskins, and Miss Colville were also passengers. Sullivan remains behind. The captain positively refusing to take him. He was seen walking about town during yesterday; a Dunedin gaol warden has been looking after him. Men have been advertised for, to work on the Waikato railway, but without success. WELLINGTON. February 17. The Wellington police are memorializing the Government for an increase of pay. The immigrants per Ocean Mail have been employed by the Provincial Government, on the road work in the interior of the province, at 7s per day, as long as they choose to remain. The total imports of the colony for the quarter ended the 31st December amounted to £1,784,605; for the corresponding period for 1872, it was £1,498,193. The comparative value of the imports for the colony for 1872, were £5,142,951; for last year, £6,462,981. The exports for the colony for 1872, were £5,190,665 ; for last year, £5,610,371. The police captured George Maurice Drummond, the absconding manager of the Provincial and Suburban Bank, at Richmond, Melbourne, on board the Mikado, this afternoon, en route for San Francisco. NELSON. News has just been received from Golden Bay that Dr. Turnell, Warden and Resident Magistrate, was drowned in the Takaka River on Monday- The body has not been found. INVERCARGILL. The first section of the Invercargill and Mataura railway (12 miles) was formally handed over by Messrs. Brogden, the contractors, to the Government. An excursion train carried 500 persons to Woodlands, where a

•'..uncbeon was provided by Messrs. Brogden. Mr. Weld, the Governor of Western Australia, was a passenger by the train, and was present at the luncheon. The weather was magnificent. DUNEDIN. February 17. The Scimitar, which sailed from Plymouth on the same day as the Mongol, is crowded with passengers.-* She had the seeds of sickness on board When she left, and her arrival is anxiously looked for in Dunedin, which is not expected for at least a month.