TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 369, 18 August 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.} ♦ THIS DAY'S TELEGRAMS. HOKITIKA, August IS. Captain Johnson, of the Marine Department, has selected Cemetery Hill, at Hokitika, as a site for the new light-house. The site is approved of by nautical authorities here. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, August 17. Three meetings re abolition were held last night. The Franklin electors (Messrs May and Buckland's constituency) met at Otahuhu, where the first resolution proposed was iu favor of the Government measures, but an amendment by Mr Battle, seconded by Mr Foley, was carried, after various speakers had addressed the meeting. It was then resolved on the motion of Mr J. Gordon—" That this meeting hereby requests the two members for Franklin to use every legitimate means to prevent the Abolition Bill passing further than the second reading." At Ponsonby another meeting, was held, where all the speakers were against the Government measures, one of them said the people were now affected to the Government in a constitutional way but revolutions had taken place in British communities. Kings had found they had gone a step too far, and the people of this colony might yet be compelled to take an extreme course against the Government tyranny. Resolutions adverse to the Government measures were carried. At Ouehunga a meeting passed a resolution calling upon the Auckland members to resist the Bill clause by clause, line by line, and word by word. The Rodney electors at Waipara also passed a resolution adverse to the Government Bill, and concluded with cheers ,for Mr Sheehan their member. A public meeting at Alexandra this afternoon carried unanimously a resolution approving of the action of Government re the abolition measures, and trusting to see the same become law during the present session. At Coromandel a large meeting affirmed the desirability of abolishing the provinces, but thought the measure should be submitted to the country at the general election. A large and influential public meeting was held at Hamilton last night. It was resolved that it is expedient that the abolition of the provinces and local Government Bills should become law during the present session. Wellington, August 17. A meeting of the electors of the Wellington countrv districts was held last night, Mr Brandon, M.H:R., and Mr Gillon, editor of the Evening Post, being present. Both spoke strongly in favor of the postponement of the question of abolition until after an appeal to the country. A resolution to this effect was carried.