SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1009, 19 August 1881, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

I'rom oub Bpsual Conrxsro.N jente. DC NT. DIN, August IS. An anonymous (lonov yesterday forwarded £3OO to (ho Benevolent. Institution Committee to assist in establishing an orphanage for destitute children. The Otago Bail way Employees Benefit Society have £I2OO to their credit The application that no more licenses for limber bo issued at the One-mile Bush, Queenstown, was granted by the Land Board yesterday, The question of a disputed road between Holt ami Marie in Leaning Bock district was farther adjourned for a week. The House is now occupied by the Representation Bill. The whole of yesterday was taken up with it. The motion for going into Committee on the Bill was carried lasl night, when the House adjourned. Three fresh cases of smali-pox have been reported in Sydney. A commercial traveller, who was slaying at a hotel in Mudgce, placed some dynami.e before a fire to dry. The package exploded and the man was blown lo atoms.

■WELLINGTON, August 18

Macaudrow baa given natico for a separate Legislature for each Island, supplementary of Pyke’s motion, given previously, and entering fully into details ol proposed scheme. The notice -was rccivod with general acclamation, members clapping their hands. Opinion is strongly m favor of the proposition. The Tapanui ami lloiiot settlors protest agsinstlhoing joined to tho Dunstan. The Railway Const ruction Bill is universe’!y condemned. Government will probably ve'er it to a Select Committee as now drafted. No company could raise a ehilI n-?on debentures.

The Representation Bill ho carried by a hr o majority B i d lags lias tabled a motion—That each provincial district bo constituted an cloctoiri'.c, and that clcclo-s t herein shall have as manv votes as there are members allotted to the district on Hire’s system. The Goldfields Committee, to whom was ro'orrod the pel Lion of the Bullc- Council, prayin'!that all the water courses in Eullor Cou-i'y he male available in the development of mining, report that the petition ho referred to Cownment, and recommend llu.t Land Boar’s bo instructed not to se'l Ind on i !, o banks of livers in tlie vicinity of gold fields without a reservation being made 1 o protect the mining industry; also that all rh’its ■ affecting outlets used for ( -i i.igs he dose away with