TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 204, 4 May 1867, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

' |OWN C t ORnESBOXDE2r.r!3.) . ■■ I Bluff, May 2. .•••»-. fa has arrived from Mcl--j j Pout Chalmers, May 2. ,' J&nian, from ELokitika, arrived Ilk. the Alhambra, from 'MclWellington, April 30. Reading politicians here regard the BJ>vf ; ' ■• 'V- (Of the General Government rela■T^*^' '■' iago, to be false. The assertion H( ; . iiple required that the election H : ' 'idrew should have been disalI ■•?■ I s we^ as tue delegation .of the H fr's powers withheld — or that no H . '■ \m hatever shpnltl have been taken. Uk j lipromise between expediency and If liple adopted by the minority, is H / larded as any j ust ideation . ■ ft Muy1 ' H {^Provincial Executive were defeated H /'Miglit ; but the Superintendent reH ,'-f to accept their resignations. ■ J '•■■■' " ' ' May 2. H ifcrthern papers report that no further ■ ; jmishes had taken place ; and that the ■ fcl natives are quiet.. I Five thousand pounds har&ibeeii offered fa reward for the discovery of a payable fid field in the Province of Auckland. ' I Lyttklton, May 1. H / Arrived : Barque Paria, 110 days, from H /Louclou. ■V ' ' Chiustchukcii, May 1. ■& The Civil Service Commission has been I appointed, consisting of the following | gentlemen :— C. C. Bowen, J. W. Hamili' ton, J. Ollivier, T. W. Maude, and 0. R. Blackistpn. Dunedin, May 1. r The Provincial Council was opened toll ' day. The Superintendent's speech an-' K , nounced that the Executive had resisted I the encroachments of the General Govern- [ ment. Provincial Legislatures must either abrogate their functions, or assert '" their position by the exercise of their J powers under the Constitution which intended the General Government to be merely Federal in iis action. For nine years the General Government had been undermining the provinces, and would continue to do so, while they. could play the North against the South. The only <; remedy was Separation, and resolutions to that eliect would be brought into the Council. Mr Reynolds has been elected Speaker. A Bill authorising ■ a " plebiscitum " throughout the province, to test the feelings of the people, has been brought in and read a first time. The people of Roxburgh (Teviot) refused to allow Mr Bradshaw, the General ■•:- Government agent, to cross the Molyneux ' pn his way to Clyde. The feeling of the jtei^*-\jlia£,u and Wakatipu Districts is yet un- ■: ■'• >lafnv^v Elsewhere there is a strong feelPlin against 'the General Government, and ■ everyone is anxiously waiting the next P move on the part of the authorities at f .Welliwgtqn. At Clyde the Warden lias taken- wp his residence in the Court-house ; ilio other offices being in the possession of the General Government. ■•-■•• May 2. >s» -:. The Plebiscitum Bill has been passed, '.^3^e..vpt,o to be based on manhood suUrage •will' be token on May 13. Mr F. J. Moss, who is understood to hold stroug proyiircialiat opinion.'.:, lias (leclincd t'j become a candidate' for the representation of Port Chalmers, in place of Mr Tkos. Dick resigned. Mr J. Hyde Harris, who is a strong Soparafcionist, is likely to offer 1 limself to the l^ort Chalmeis electors.