LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 692, 25 June 1870, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent.) Nelson, June 24. The Provincial Council was prorogued yesterday, after a slight scene. On the night previous a public meeting was held, consisting of the anti-Luckie party, the old Government party, and Mr O'Conor. The Executive Act was, of course, condemned, and the Executive as self-seekers. Much mock sympathy was shown for Mr Kynnersley and Mr Harris by Gibbs, Wilkie, and others, who 'had previously made ungrounded attacks on both. Mr O'Conor discovered his West Coast colleagues to have deep, dark, and dreadful designs. In the Council yesterday, resolutions, passed at the meeting held here, were introduced by the Speaker, as a letter from the Chairman of the meeting. Messrs Donne, Reid, Shephard, and Kelling denounced the reading of the letter as an imprudent attempt at intimidating and coercing the Council by a handful of Nelsottites. All but six members walked out of the Chamber. An attempt to repeal the Executive Act failed. Mr Kynnersley is likely to be of more service to the Coast m the Assembly than m the Nelson Government service. It is not expected that Mr Harris will be disadvantaged by the change. Wellington, June 24. Mr H. R. Kane, formerly a draper liere, Was found dead m his bed this I morning. He was quite well last night. Mr Harrison's Fire Protection Rate Bill has been read a second time m the louse of Representatives. The Ballot Bill has nearly passed ihrough Committee. The Government has stated that it did lot intend to send representatives to the! Conference to be held at Mellourne this month. A house m Bolton street was burned lown this afternoon.

NELSON ANNEXATION LEAGUE. A meeting of this League was held ist night m Ki'gour'S Union Hotel, 'and ras numerously attended, notwithstand: ng the boisterous Weather, jf, Kilgour, Ss^., Mayor, was m the chair. The mifttttes of the last meeting were cad and confirmed. "The Secretary read the' following process report of the Committee of the Nel>on Annexation League up to June 26th, tß7O"t— '• '"- '■•■■■• """■■•■■■ Your Committee have to report that sir cc he formation of the League on the 13th nsfc., about 100 names have been enrolled as nembers of the League, making m all about L2O. Your Committee have lost no time m prernring a Memorial foi presentation to the General Assembly, signatures to which are jeing now actively canvassed all over the listnct. ' ! On the Nelson side two canvassers are at present at work, m addition to which about 50 storekeepers m that district have accepted Memorials for the purpose of obtaining signatures thereto. Many of these storekeepers are personally known to members oi four Committee as being decidedly m favor of promoting the objects of the League. This assistance your Committee consider will be of very great value to them, inasmuch as it forwards the Memorial into places where it would be impracticable to reach by paid canvassers, except at great expense. The progress m this part of the district has been much retarded by the very bad weather we have had, but from intelligence received by the Committee a great nnmbei of signatures have already been obtained. While the attention of your Committee was m the first place devoted to obtaining the co-operation of the inhabitants on th< Nelson side of the Grey, the district on thit side has not been negleceed. The Greenstone was communicated witi at once, and the gentlemen employed to gel signatures there, notwithstanding 1 the weather and limited time at his command, found, no difficulty m obtaining nearly 20( signatures. He reports that the storekeeper! and diggers i m that district were almosl unanimous m favor of the annexation of thii district to Nelson. . : Your Committee have every confidence ir stating that the most: numerous and influential Memorial that has ever left the Wesi Coast will, m the course of another week oi ten days, be ready for transmission to Wei' lington. .'■'.'; • ' Your Committee have likewise to report that communication has been kept up Witl the Provincial Council at Nelson ; ev«sry-in< formation required has been afforded that Government as to the revenue and departmental expenditure of the district proposed to be annexed. The Provincial Council have informed your Committee that a Commission will shortly be on its way to the Grey tc collect information oh the subject. Until this Commission report the Executive ix Nelson will not be m a position to give thit League any decided support. Your Committee confidently anticipate that suet report of the Commissioners from Nelson canuot be otherwise than favorable to the objects of this League. Your- Committee nave endeavored m every way to forward this movement. Correspondence With Wellington, as well as Nelson, has been carried on with all who may have.it m their power to forward the objects of this Association m the General Assembly. The report was received and adopted. ; The memorial, which had been adopted by the Committee, was read, and a conversation ensued as to the member of the House of Representatives who ought to On the motion of Mr Kennedy, seconded by Mr Nichoi, it was resolved that the following members of the League be appointed to obtain signatures to the memorial :— ln the East Ward, Messrs Maxwell and Gilmer ; Middle Ward, Messrs Parkinson and Duncan M'Lean ; West Ward, Messrs Strike and Moore. The remaining business was unimportant, and the meeting adjourned.