INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 902, 1 August 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

According to Christchurch papers Graham Flowers, a prisoner arrested on a charge of cattle stealing, and while being conveyed to the West Coast, gave the escorting constable “the slip” in the Otira Gorge on Saturday last. Thomas Desmond has been fined L 3, or in default fourteen days’ imprisonment, in Christchurch, for kissing a manied woman in the street. It is officially announced that the Sydney Exhibition will he opened in the middle oi September. Heavy failures are announced in Sydney, amongst them being Gilchrist, Stubbs, and Co., in the soft goods line, for L 26.00!), and Myers and Solomon, importers, forLls,ooo. Myers and Solomon’s (of Sydney) liabilities are now put down at L 75,001). Their assets are unstated. Martin Weiberg was acquitted on the charge of theft in the Avoca gold robbery, but was convicted of receiving the stolon money. He was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Pearce was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. In Banco in Christchurch recently, Mr Macasscy obtained a rule nisi for leave to move for a new trial in the celebrated Waimate bush fire case—Court v. Studholme—on the ground that the verdict, which had been for plaintiff, was against the weight of evidence, and that since the trial new and important evidence had been discovered. The coffee-house movement is extending to the suburbs of Melbourne. The Catholics in Auckland have started a new weekly paper entitled the Freeman's Journal. The number of telegrams forwarded from April to June, 1879, was 355,.831, showing an increase of 21,228. The cash received was L 18.915, or a decrease of L9l The value of Government telegrams f or the same period wasL79BS, showing an increase of L 2249. A shocking case of destitution has been discovered atthe'Makeretabush settlement. In a miserable whare without floor, and the roof letting 'in water, were found a child dying, and a woman and half-a-dozen other children literally starving. Steps are being taken to relieve their necessities. Mr Buchan, a representative of Dunedin speculators, has been examining the Lang-

down line of reefs at Greymouth, and is so highly satisfied with them that he has entered into an agreement to have machinery at work ou Boase’s claim within three months, and has made the same offer on behalf of Langdowu’s claims. Ti.e wife of Mr Montgomery, M. 11. 11. died at Christchurch on Saturday last. The Roman Catholics of Canterbury have started a home for domestic servants out of employment. At a meeting held yesterday subscriptions to the extent of 200 were promised. A boatman named Andrew M‘Gavin was crushed to death this afternoon by a heavilyloaded turf-boat at Timaru. He got foul of the line as tho boat was being launched, and was thrown right iu the way, the boat passing over the lower part of his body. Death was instantaneous. A young lad, 15 years of age, named M’Leod, was brought up at the Residents Magistrate’s Court Oamaru, on a charge of forgery, and remanded. A young man named John Irvine has been victimising the Auckland tradesmen by representing himself as the son of Sir John Irvine. He was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment. The Sydney Exhibition is making immense progress. The number of exhibits is overwhelming. New Zealand will occupy a splended position. Wheat has advanced in Melbourne to 6s, and is film at that figure. The Queensland Government have introduced a Loan Bill for £19,000,000 for railways and public works.