THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[By Electric Telegraph,] (From our own Correspondent.) Aug. 13. Mr Curtis’s motion appears on to-mor-row’s order paper. It will not be withdrawn, and the Government make it a Ministerial question. The extreme Provincialists will be defeated. The caucus meeting on Saturday was a faihire. Some wished Curtis’s motion to be withdrawn. Mr Reynolds’s separation motion will be met by an amendment to the effect that it is not prudent to make any great constitutional change at present in the face of the large colonising policy and public works being carried on. The Budget will be brought forward on Tuesday next. Papers laid on the table this afternoon, relative to the M atari ra and Invercargill Railway, show that Forest and Company and Proudfoot, Victorian contractors, offererl to construct two hundred miles (?) of railway annually at 124 per cent, below the engineer’s estimate; to deposit 24 per cent, security ; to receive progress payments upon the completion of each ton miles. Notwithstanding this, the Invercargill and Mataura Railway contract was given to Mr Brogden, whose tender is above the engineer’s estimate. The matter will come before the House,
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Evening Star, Issue 2959, 13 August 1872, Page 3
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189THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Evening Star, Issue 2959, 13 August 1872, Page 3
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