LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 542, 6 September 1872, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, Sept. 5, 2.30. The Gold-fields Bill, as introduced by the Government, does not meet the approval of any of the Gold-fields Committee, to -whom it has been referred. The Committee have returned the Bill to the Government for considerable alterations. There is no chance of the Bill passing this Session. The division on the Want of Confidence motion will probably take place to-day. The expected result is—for the Government, 37; Opposition, 40. Ddnidik, 5, p.m. Shepherd declared that he lost confidence in the Opposition last year by its leaders supporting Brogden’s contract, No. 2. x fter careful inquiry, believed Reed’s allegation that Otago lost 60,0001. by railway i contracts, a mere fiction. Believed a large i' saving ’ to have been effected, from the [ Clutha line, by its being out of the hands of the Provincial Government. Complaints contrary, were only made by disapointed contractors. Referred to the Winton I Railway arbitration, as an instance of Pro- ■ vincial management, to the importance of s the Land question, and the danger of put- ( ting in Gillies, who desired to see the Land fund made Colonial revenue. Nothing could compensate for another native war, yet such might be the result of a change of ! ministry. The Si afford governm nt by its ■ Civil P nsiens’ Act imposed a liabi'ity oi 385,0001. on the Colony, while the present l ministry are willing to repeal those Acts On he whole he believed it to be better fo; ' the interests of the Colony, that no change “t. of-ministry should take place- ) Webster, Calder, Hallenstein and O’Crn-

nor' supported the resolutions. ’ Peirce, Jackson, Kelly Harrison and Peirce against, i Jackson proposed an Amendment that a' change of government was undesirable. It was subsequently withdrawn. Ormond and Stafford have yet to speak. There will be a division to'uight. ’ The City of Auckland has arrived from London, with two hundred immigrants. Harbor, late the Postmaster at Hokitika has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for embezzlement.