TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 585, 4 July 1873, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

Dunedin, July 3, 4.40.’p.m. The Provincial Council opened on Tuesday, the Ist instant. The Executive is Tolmie, Turnbull, Bastinss, M'Dermid and Turton. Speaker, Mr. J. L. Gillies Shand moves to-d°y vote of want of confi.lcnce in Government on grounds that they are not advocates of progress, and incoir - petent to carry on the business of the country. Gillies is a condidatfl for Waikouaiti in the House of Representatives. Stout’s motion approving the desirability of increasing the area to be thrown open under deferred payments from 30,000 to 100,000 aerea annually was carried without a division. The Government supporting it. I The Government also suppartod Lums- \ den’s motion of reserving 200,000 acres in

Southland under the same system, which was carried. Shand’s motion for reserving 200.000 acres along the line of the (Jlutha and Mataura railways was supported by the Government, and adjourned. The Council are now debating an urgent motion by Lumsden, which affirms the doubts having been cajc on reservation authorised yestci - day. The Superintendent is authorised o g i into the mirket and purchase the land. It was stated in course of debate that the sale of land is going on wholesale in Soi ti» land. /1 the Land Board there yesterday, 31.000 acres were sold. The Government supported Lumsden’s proposal, but say they are advised the Superintendent has not tie power to buy. The Waste Lands Board at Maerawhenua sold 10,000 acres to Ca; pbell to-day. The House yesterday appointed a Commission, to whom the ap; lieatiou were referred The Government are in favor of passing an Ordinance preventing members of the Assembly from being in the Executive. Mr, Tolmie explained that ho intended to re-eonstruot the Government by taking ii Northern and Sou'hn-n members. He refused to leave tbe Waste Lands Board so long as he was a member of Government. Mr. Reid said Government contractors were not paid, and the Treasury told them it was the result of his action. Mr. Tun - gave the statement a most unqualified contradiction.