INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 917, 14 November 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

The Bank of Australasia at Moe, Victoria, wasstuckup on the Gth instmt,by two men, masked ; they were successfully resisted, but escaped. They have since been arrested, and are the suns of a selector. The successful winners of the Auckland LSO i 0 sweep on the Melbourne Cup goes to three Working men At Christchurch ou the 7ih instant, a woman with a baby in her arms, and apparently of respectable character, was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment for a petty theft, She admitted the charge, and said she had been tempted to steal through want of food. Inspector Hickson Said she had applied for charitable aid Over 150 gentlemen have t hen out Licenses in Otago for this season’s trout fishing On the 7th instant at Grahamstown, the men on aged in digging a treitch near the old Kumnni Hotel, unearthed the skeleton of a man. The skull was pronounce 1 to be thatof an adult European. It is snpiv'sed to be the relic of some un discovers 1 crime. The Victorian Minister of Lands states that the selectors are L 320.000 in arrears for rent. The Bank of New South Wales’ dividend and bonus equals 17J per eent. An Auckland telegram "fays —" The land tax clerks are to be naid off at the end of this month, leaving only the deputy com missioner and the chief clerk.

The Liverpool Post stat- a on crood information that the euorm us richness of the oM goldfields on the Guinea coast has not been exaggerated in the reports received ciuring the last ten months. To one of our African merchants, who has had a mining engineer at. work for upwards ot 12 months, a prize has fallen of probably untold value. Sir John Glov-r s statement that hef had travelled over the districts where one might dig up gold like potatoes is all hut literally realised in those recent discoveries, which give th" enormous yield of Ll2O nor ton of qnartz at a depth of 50ft-, and L 3 on tho surface, while their extent is practically vhlinitech