TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 294, 21 May 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Press Telegraph Agency.') Auckland, May 20, The Auckland and Mercer railway was open to the public to-day. The Williamson memorial fund is expected to realise £450. Mr Bagnall, the Thames member, moved in the Provincial Council this afternoon — “That in the opinion of this Council the time has arrived when some change should be made in the dual system of government at present existing in the colony ; that the whole of the Provincial Governments at present existing should be abolished, and a more efficient and local form of selfgovernment established in lieu.” At the close of the mover’s speech proposing the resolution, no one rose to speak. After a pause, and no member rising, the Speaker called on the mover to reply, which he declined. He was then putting the question, when Mr Swanson and others asked leave to move an amendment. The Speaker ruled that they could not do so, as he had called on the mover to reply. The question was then put and carried by 19 to 14. The sudden termination of the expected debate took the Council by surprise. The Provincial Secretary at once gave notice to propose a motion rescinding the resolution tomorrow. The plans and specifications of the A uckland dock, to enable English contractors to tender, which were in the Mikado’s mail, it is feared have been lost in the Schiller. The Harbor Board has sent a cablegram to inquire. Dunedin, May 20. The missing notes from the Treasury have been found. They were discovered in one of the gold-boxes. The affair caused a lot of excitement and suspicion, THIS HAY’S TELEGRAMS. Wellington, May 21. Arrived—Taranaki, from the North. Sailed—Phcebe, for the North. Greymouth, May 21. Arrived —Maori, from Dunedin via Bluff. The schooner Gleaner and the Adieu, from Melbourne. The Murray, from Hokitika. Sailed —The St Kilda, for Wanganui ; Wallace, for Westport ; Waipara, for Hokitika. The Maori sails North at noon on Saturday. (FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, May 20. An awfully sudden death occurred during last night. A man named Raddle, a compositor, who has worked in various parts of the colony, and was last employed on the Thames Advertiser, where he went out on strike in conseqnence of the employment of female labor, went home at midnight drunk and fell on the floor; the inmates put him to bed, where he died before morning. An extraordinary case came before the police court to-day. A music-teacher named Gilbert, who also keeps a small grocers’ shop, was brought up charged with neglecting to support his wife. Evidence was shown of his miserly habits. His wife and children were made to lie on bags, and given stinking meat for food, and subjected to other treatment of a shameful character. In crossexamination he admitted that he was worth £2OOO. The Court ordered him to pay £1 a week for his wife’s support. The Education Board has not sufficient funds to pay current expenses, and is pressing hard for the tax. One hundred and thirty judgments were given against defaulters to-day. [FROM OUR WELLINGTON CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, May 20. E. J. Wakefield, M H.R., was fined again to-day for drunkenness and obscene language. It is reported that the General Government will not allow the Provincial Government to repay advances made to it under the Advances to Provinces Act, as resolved on by the Council,