TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 81, 3 September 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

{Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency. ) Wellington, September 2. It is understood that Mr J. Douglas, manager of the Australian and New Zealand Laud Company, has arranged with the Government of this province for the purchase of 20,000 acres of the Orona block. The terms of the purchase are that Mr Douglas shall pay 12s Cd an acre for the land, and undertakes within a given period to expend at least £IO,OOO in improving the property, and settle seventy families as a special settlement, each family to have an allotment of 100 acres. The transaction needs continuation by an order in Council. The Post in to-night’s leader says : —“We have reason to believe that Mr Vogel has strongly urged Mr Stafford to join the Government, and that the latter has flatly refused, notwithstanding that Mr Vogel offered to resign the Premiership, and go home either temporarily to negociate the loan and mail services, or permanently as AgentGetiei'id. Mr .Staff ml not only refused, but strongly objected to Mr Vogel’s leaving the colony, and pointed out that financial dangers were looming ahead, and that through Mr Vogel’s policy the country was placed in a posit ion of a precarious character, and most forcibly dwelt upon the duty of Mr Vogel’s awaiting in the colony the result of his own action. ' For himself, he had refused absolutely to receive, act, or take part in the matter. If the policy succeeded, he had no wish to claim any c,edit of it ; if it failed, he wished it to rest upon the right shoulders.” Point' CtiAI..MEUS. September 2. Sailed —Plioebc, for Lyttelton, at 2 p in. This section of the Moeraki railway is to he commenced to-morrow. 400 newly arrived immigrants will be sent to work. West i ‘OUT, September 2. The schooner Dunedin, produce laden, from Dunedin, is ashore at the entrance of the river. The bar is good, but the wind shifting drove her on the sank bank. THIS PAY'S TELEGRAMS. Nelson, September 3. Mr Luekie addressed a large meeting of his constituents last night. Lie dwelt principally on the abolition of the provinces question. He stated that it was time that all the provinces should bn swept away, and the land funds made colonial revenue. Ho referred to the system of provincial finance in Auckland and Wellington as rotten in the extreme, and calling for the interference of the Government. He said that Wellington rode rampant through the Audit Act, and

ivjis a sturdy beggar, always trying to cxLract money Irom the Gener U Government ; it was high time that the General Government reigned supreme in the Colony.

His references to the abolition of all the provinces were received with loud cheers. A vote of confidence in Mr Luckie was unanimously passed. Wellington, Sept. 3. The report that Major Atkinson becomes a member of the Ministry is confirmed.