TELEGRAPHIC.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 204, 19 August 1874, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

PER AN ti 1,0-A I,' ST HAL TAX PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY. North Island Lrovincc Ilcsolutioii. ATO it LAND, luesday Night. Meetings hold at OfahuLui and Ncwui arkot eondoomed Air Vogel’s resolution for the abolition of provinces unless the Aliddle Island provinces are similarly dealt with. The Wellington special correspondents of the Aucjiluiui papers all state the Ministry will have a good majority on Air Vogel’s resolution. .... ... , Tuesday Night. there wih be no outward ’Frisco mail this month. r J ho Luna takes the outward Suez mail about the sth instant. Members llonoruri mu. The Situation. Great Political Excitement. Latest Gossip. Humoured Majority for the Government. Williamson Refuses a Life Pension. Reader Wood to Take O’Rorke’s beat in the Ministry, Mr Macfarlane’s Petition. Collection of Highway Kates. Polynesian Scheme. No ’Frisco Mail This Month. North Island Province Resolution. This afternoon a Crazefte was issued announcing the issue letters of naturalisation to Gustav Ludwig Theodore Von Der Hevde, merchant, Auckland. r lhe following appointment is notified for general^information i—Captain Hannibal Marks, to be pilot of Tauranga. Alonday Evening. The Honorarium Committee : Four on each side. Air Vogel gave casting vote. Terms agreed on, 150 guineas per annum. It ia rumoured that Air Reynolds will resign. O Rorke s disinterestedness 23 generally highly appreciated. The Premier has announced that Air O’Rorko sent in his resignation to his Excellency, which has been accepted. The Government expect they will get 40 supporters for the abolition of the North Island provinces. Air Vogel wishes to appeal to the country and force a dissolution. Rumour says that Air Reader Wood will take Mr O’Rorke’s place. Alessrs Reynolds, McLean, and Pollen, are supposed to have manifested dissatisfaction at the Premier’s consolidation scheme. The session will now be prolonged. It is said that Air Williamson will trot take the life provision Mr Vogel proposes for him. In objecting to the petition from Air Ala afar* ,ane against Air V on Oer Heyde’s election recently, Mr Reader Wood said that the petition was informal,and read from the Election Petitions Act to show that the required formalities had not been complied with. The House decided, on the voices, not to receive the petition. Air Sheehan moved that the law regarding the sale of land for nonpayment of rates was unsatisfactory, and that the Government should draw up a measure daring the recess to facilitate the collection of rates. Ine Premier stated that the Government was noi/ certain whether it would this session proceed with the Polynesian Xrade Bid in consequence of the debate upon the abolition resolutions, and would postpone everything but business absolutely necessary. Very Latest. Government Buildings, Wellington, Tuesday Night, 8.45 p.m. The debate is now waxing fast and furious. Alacandrcw spoke very forcibly, and Stewart very ungenerously. Reynoldssaid it was time the North Island stopped sponging on the colony. Alontgomery opposed the Bill. Sheehan is now speaking strongly against the resolution. The sitting will be very late, or rather, early. °

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