INTERPROVINCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 959, 14 April 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Bt Electric Telsgkapu.)

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

DUKEDIS, April 12. Owing to a case of small-pox break* ingouton board the Tainui yesterday, she has been placed in fuarantine. Vessels lately arrived at Brisbane from .New Guinea state that shortly after leaving the island showers of hot ashes fell on deck, and it is supposed that serious eruplions have occurred in that neighborhood. John Grace has been sentenced to I death at Sydney for the murder of John ' Stapleton. Mr W. P. Street, once mayor of Dunedin, was yesterday presented by both the citizens and brokers with mementoes of their esteem on the occasion i of his leaving for Victoria. An interesting case was heard at the Supreme Court yesterday—viz., Daldedybill y. Brunton. It was a case for £SO damages for libel. The case was most entertaining, being kid against Mr Brunton, an evangelist long and well known in Dunedin, for a letter written reflecting en the character of plaintiff. The case goes on again this morning.

The N.S.W. yield of wheat for the year shows a decrease of about two bushels per acre, compared with the last 10 years.

John M'Kenzie Macdonald, who was sentenced to penal servitude for life for firing a building in Wanganui and causing the death of a lodger, has been released from custody in the Wellington Gaol on account of old age. He had served seventeen years. Mr M'Alister, who has received notice of dismissal as a Government auditor, has been occupying his offices in Wellington for some days after the expiry of the notice. Yesterday, he found his offices locked, and was refused admittance by the chief messenger. He questions the right of the Government to remove provincial district auditors.