TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 746, 4 August 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

— o— OUR CORRESPONDENT.) Dunedin, August 3. Mr Whittaker's resolutions were negatived by 54 votes agaidst 21.. Sir George Grey to night will move—- “ That in the opinion of the House the state of the Colony requires that its financial and constitutional arrangements should bo reconsidered—That the unity of the Colony should be maintained—That there should be two local Governments, one for each Island—That the Colonial Government be responsible for the Colonial debt, for which the annual charge, interest and sinking fund is LSI3,ODO, and that the North Island should be charged with the sum of L 190.000 per annum, and the South Island with L 625,000 per annum; and that with the exception of matters of great importance to the Colony, which must be reserved for the Colonial Government, each local Government shall have the entire control and management of its own affairs, and the disposal of its own resources—That the scat of the local Government of the North Island shall be at Auckland, and that the seat of the local Government of the South Island, shall be at Christchurch, and that the seat of the Colonial Government shall remain as at present in Wellington.” He thought all the plans for local self Government which he had heard so much talk of that night, would be much better given effect to by his resolutions, than by the scheme of the Government.