PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3809, 10 May 1875, Page 3

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

The sitting this afternoon was brief —ttf little more than an hoar’s duration. Several .petitions were presented, and among the Bills'introduced and read for the first time were Tb*' Otago Harbor Amendmdht aad s Peninsula and Ocean Beach Rhihfcay; \ The motions—none of them carried, and the Honse at once proceeded to the orders of the day, carrying without farther debate, Mr LuMitoEN’a motion affirming the fairness a.ud reasonableness of Southland’s claim ftjl the direct shipment to the Bluff of a fair pro-' porMon of the immigrants Bent to the Province. Monsage No. 2 from the Superintendent in vited ftho co-operation of the Provincial Council in recommending the Governor to proclaim farther Hundreds, to be narqed respectively Tapanm,- Kyebum, Otakerama, Landslip Hi», South Gleukenich, North Glenkenioh, Chatton, and Kingston, comprising together an am 125,600 ac£eß.

Message No. 3 invited the «e-operatjqn the Council An recommending l 'the Governor to proclaim the* following areas to be thrown open under the .deferred payment systems,ooo acres in IM'Kellar’s and Clark’s (late Roberts’s rums) at Tapantii: 6,600 acres in MTntyre’s, Otago and Southland Investment Co.’s, M’Eeneie’a and Logan’s runs, situated on the Oteratnai'ca Landslip Hill, South Qlen» kenich and North Glenkenhjh Hundreds; 4,400 acres in M'Nab’s run in Chatton Hundred ; 2,600 acres in Trotter’s and Rogers’s runs, Kingston Hundred ; 6,400 acres in Preston’s run, and 6,000 acres in Barton and M‘Master’s run, in Kyebum Hundred.