CHRISTCHURCH.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1704, 4 August 1875, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH.

(Per Press Telegram Agency.) This day.

The Abolition Measures

The public meeting to consider abolition will be held to-night. The Mayor stated at the City Council that as the Government proposed to endow the municipalities so liberally it should have their support. A meeting of the Selwyn electors adopted resolutions against the passing of the abolition resolutions this session, and to ask Mr Reeves, their representative, to strenuously oppose clause 27 and all other provisions of the bill by which the General Government became possessed of large arbitrary powers. The JLyttelton Times this morning has an article on the Abolition Bill, which says that the Bill for the Abolition will not be such a complete charige as was expected, as the greater portion of the machinery so much complained of as cumbrous and burdensome is to remain. The Government propose to find out how it works before interfering with it. In a word, they do not know anything about the system which they and their supporters have taken so much pains to denounce as antiquated and unworkable. It also remarks upon the impossibility of the provinces which have no land revenue going on for e.ver borrowing £10,000 a year.