LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1200, 3 June 1872, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

|_P3R GREVILLE's TELEGRAPH COMPANY, REUTER's AGENTS.] Wellington, June 1. The Provincial Council last night passed. a resolution to the effect that it is desirable, with a view to rendering the administration of affairs of th ) province more simple and efficient, that the Superintendent should be elected by a majority of the Council, from the members thereof, or from outside the Council; that he should be a member of the Council ex. officio, removable by a vote of 'the majority ; that the 'present power of vetoing an ordinance' should be vested' in the Governor ; that \ the Executive Council should consist of four members, exclusive of the Superintendent, who should be the Chairman ; that the Executive should be appointed or removed by the Council'; and that the General Government J^e asked to bring in a bill next session of the Assembly to authorise these alterations. Jamos Irving, a rar'lway employee, has been ordered by the Council to be dismissed for declaiming against the Goveianient and Council at a public meeting, last night, and agitating against them. ' The Government has been requested to

appoint a commission of disinterested persons to^select a site for a central railway station in Christchurch, Four different schemes are brought forward. Arrived.— Raugitota Sho saila on Monday. Sailed— Gothenburg, for Nelson Wellington, June 1. Robert Hart, of Wellington, and N. Edwards, of Nelson, are to be called to the Upper House. It is not decided who will represent Government in the Legislative Council. Waterhouse has been pressed, but his health will not allow him to undertake the duties. Mr Gisborne is said to nave refused. . Rumor points to James Smith, barrister, of Dunedin. Dunedin, June 1. The police have acknowledged the strike illegal, and have petitioned the Commissioner to be reinstated.