TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 751, 8 September 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(from our court espondEnt. ) Dunedin, Sept. 5. Haughton’arrested charged with attempting to abscond, and was remanded in custody to 1 Wellington. Tho Ministerial Statement was read last nigbt. Ministers said they proposed offering Vogel the Agoht-GenSralship, and also intend carrying out the Abolition policy ; immigration would be continued ; proposed a new loan of two millions. Abolition finally makes new arrangements for museums and hospitals. Execution is left till next session, when a Colonial plan will he submit:, ted. The Counties Bill is so modified that after counties are defined the Opposition to use either Road Boards or County Councils. Native Land Purchase Department to be under Crown Lands Commissioner.

Tho Ministry hoped that tho Government policy would ha acceptable to the House. Mr Macandrew to move the House disapproves of the appointment of Vogel. Stout twitted Ministers with not having pluck enough to appoint iTulius Vogel, and it was unconstitutional while he was a member of the House. Wellington, Sept 7. The Gfild Duties Reduction Bill passed tho seeon 1 reading last night, the debate to be taken on its going into Committee. The Government have offered to subsidise the duty as a rate-two pounds to one. The Bill will'not be given up by Mr Pyke and the gold-fields’ members. Dunedin, Sept. 7.

The pusillanimous conduct of the Ministry in not having pluck to stake their existence on the appropriation of voting, but by their action, letting loose all the wolves of the House to tear ''them to pieces, and then accepting Stout’s amendment, is considered a most humiliating spectacle, and savors much of saure (jui pent. The debate was a hot one, and the division left the matter so that it can be redebated.

The application of the Town Clerk, Cromwell, to the Waste Lands’ Board to prevent raining on reserves, Cromwell, the Ranger was instructed by the Board that permission had not been given. It is reported that Sir Julius Vogel resigns, and refuses the appnintmene of Agent General.—he ought to exclaim in addition, —Save me from my friends.