TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 290, 2 June 1875, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[from our own correspondent.] * DUNEDIN. Tuesday, 7.50 p.m. At the opening'of the University session last night, Dr Coughtrey, Professor of Anatomy, delivered an excellent and comprehensive address, and received a hearty vote of thanks, on the motion of Bishop Neville. The Chain Hills Tunnel was successfully broken through yesterday, and in the afternoon a number of gentlemen went out by special train to celebrate the event. The entire length of the tunnel is 571 yards. It was commenced in August, 1873, but in consequence of slips at the mouth and other obstacles, the work was not fairly started till February, 1874. On entering the bailiff's office in the Magistrate's Court buildings yesterday morning, Barnes, the bailiff, discovered that a desk had been wrenched open and rifled of about £l3O. The police have not yet succeeded in obtaining any clue to the robbers.

A man named Gillies, while tamping a shot at the Nelson Co.'s claim, Blue Spur, yesterday, was severely injured by the shot exploding. The great Maori meeting at the Kaik still continues, and many more Natives have arrived.

The Bell Ward municipal election to-day resulted as follows :—Leary, 247 ; Stewart, 212.

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL

In "the Council yesterday, in reply to a question, Whether the Government had considered the petition re Bannockburn bridge and report of the Goldfields Committee thereon, recommending purchase ? Mr Bastings said the Government could not do anything in the matter until the Council, as a body, took some action in connection with report of the Committee. Mr Moody, Provincial Treasurer, has made his financial statement. He said the present Government had altered the Estimates of their predecessors so that there were £5,100 added to estimated revenue, with a decrease in the proposed expenditure of the late Government of £13,670 : but, notwithstanding this, the Treasurer said the Government proposed to expend a considerable sum in excess of that proposed to be spent by the late Government under the heads Roads, Bridges, and other pressing and very necessarv works. He explained that this was managed through the sum of £2,500 for school buildings being omitted, as this sum could be raised by loan on security of the Education reserves. In the discussion which ensued, Mr Manders pointed out that in the amended Estimates, £2OOO had been taken off the sum for Goldfields Reds and Bridges, and £3OOO added to the Southland expenditure. Southland members might be, smiling and satisfied, but Goldfields members were not.

Among the earliest notices of motion this afternoon was one.by Mr Reitl for to-morrow, "That the Council has no confidence in the present Executive."