TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Cromwell Argus, Volume II, Issue 102, 24 October 1871, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

PER CREYILLE'S TREORAM COMPANY, REUTER'S AGENTS. DUSEDIN, Tuesday, 10.51 a.m. The report of the committee ou Mr Clarke's purchase of 50,000 acres of land recommends itto be advertised throughout the Province that the sale is supposed to bo illegal, and that petitions to both Houses of the General Assembly might assist in quashing the sale. In committee on the Fivyments to Provinces Bill, Mr Vogel said that, seeing the hardship of depriving the provinces of the funds they expected to receive, the Government had resolve:! —at the request of Superintendents —that half of the hj. 100,000 voted to Road Boards be given to Provincial Governments to pay tor any permanent works Provinces are under engagement to construct. Tn committee on Ways and Mean?, Mr Stafford moved the reduction of the Ordinary Services, in order not to e:«ee 1 the ordinary revenue Mr Kelly moved an mnsnlmenfc, not because of the amount of taxation, but its inequality, which was severely felt by the country. A Property and Income Tax ought to be levied. Motion negatived by 40 votes to 22, and the amendment carried on the voices. A public meeting at Wellington condemned the Brogdeu contracts. The Timaru Agricultural Show promises to be the best in the colony. Over 400 entries. Mr John Deane, stevedore, of Port Chalmers, died suddenly. In a rifle-match between the Divnedin Artillery and the Honourable Artillery, London, the former won by 52 points. Quite a furore exists in reference to the Canada Reef, near Tokomairiro. Three cases of jumping have occurred. L.250 have been refused for a share in the Ocean View Claim. The Gothenburg brings Australian news to the 14th instant. Mr Duffy is seriously indisposed—suffering from a bronchial affection. The second reading of the Bill granting a pension of L. 1000 to Sir Francis Murphy, has been carried. It was opposed in Committee, and postponed. There is immense excitement, amounting to a furore, regarding Beadigo (Victoria) mining stock. The Defiance, from Fiji, brings intelligence to the effect that the Tanna natives have eaten Mr Grutt, planter, late salesman to Bates, Sise, and Co., Dunodin. Telegraphic communication between England and Australia is promised in February.