INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 895, 13 June 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

A stocking factory on a small scale lias been started in Wellington. The tender of Messrs Gibbons and Darrow, of the Thames, has been accepted for 100,000 sleepers at 2s Oil each. A Melbourne telegram in the Sydney Evening News predicts a great commercial crisis there. The Kellys have been seen near the Puzzle Ranges. The police in searching found saddles and sundries. During the month of May 253 persons arrived in Port Chalmers by sea, and 123 left by the same source. Recently a man named Burgess came up to a constable iu Tiinaru, and told him be had broken a street lamp iu order that he might get a night’s lodging. He was sentenced to six days’ imprisonment. The Government have decided to offer the Speakership of the Legislative Council to Sir William Fitzherbert. A fire broke out at the Manukau Hotel, Onebunga, last Saturday, by which between L4OOO ami LSOOO worth of buildings were destroyed and a man killed. The insurances were—South British, LI2OO ; New Zealand, L 200; Transatlantic, LSDO ; Royal, L2OO. Governor Robinson has placed his son at Nelson College. A son of Constable Walker, of Mercer, twelve years old, while playing with a revolver, shot himself, and lies in a precarious state. The two Italians concerned in the late desperate affray in Wellington, have been committed for trial. Williams and Co.’s ironmongers’ place, Sydney, was robbed on Saturday of LoOOO worth of cheques and notes. A portion has been recovered. A meeting was lately held in Dunedin for the purpose of establishing a Hunt Club. It is believed 150 will join An order has been issued by the Wellington Corporation, that so long as Corporation work is limited married men are to have the preference. The miners in the Energetic mine, Reefton, have struck against an attempt to reduce their wages from L 3 Ifls to L 3. Mr Butler, formerly Attorney-General for N.S.W., died suddenly iu Court at Sydney on Monday. Mr Henry Hownrth takes the R.M. business in Dunedin during the absence of Mr Bathgate. The aboriginial who was condemned to death for rape was executed at Mudgee on Tuesday.