LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1544, 17 July 1873, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[anglo-attstraman' press telegraph AGENCY.] PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. Wellington, July 36. In the House to-day, in reply to Mr Williamson as to whether the Government intend asking the authority of Parliament to' extend the Waikato railway to a point on the upper boundary of the confiscated land arid to connect the main line with the Thames district at Tararu, the Premier said many applications had been made for various railways and public works, and if the Government were not misled further ' applications to the amount of millions 'wojuld be made. The Government proposed to cpme down with a statement regarding their intentions at the same time as the.Financial Statement, probably in a fortnigHt hence., i . >.: The Premier promised to bring down a report on the telegraph and mail servicjes.' The Native Minister promised to report on Native affairs on the East Coast j early. The following Bills have been read a first time.* — -Joint Stock Companies' Amendment, Municipal Corporation Water Works. (In reply to Mr Murray, Mr | Bathgate said the latter Bill would ' not- interfere with the rights of third parties.) District Courts Amendment, Assaults on Constables, Gold-Mining, Prisons, Insolvency.

Mr Seymour- was elected Chairman of Committees, and the Sessional Committees were appointed.

In a debate regarding the Printing Committee, Mr Murray and Mr Thompson attacked the composition of the Committee, insinuating that printers unduly preponderated and supported the Government from selfish objects. The Committee was agreed to. Mr Gillies moved for a return of the cost and revenue under the Public Trustees Act. Mr Bathgate replied that the cost wasLlso. Mr Gillies moved for a return of the amount of gunpowder authorised by each officer of the Native Department to be supplied or sold to natives. Agreed to. Mr O'Corior moved for a return of the annual importation of coal, with its value; also a return of the field work by each officer of the Geological Department during the past year. Agreed to. The House adjourned till to-morrow, i : Ahaura, July 15, 5 p.m. The coach from Reefton has not yet arrived. The rivers are rising. Wellington, July 16. The ship Halcione has been released from quarantine. The proposed alteration in the constitution of the Upper House, referred to in the Governor's speech, will probably make it elective. A modification of the Australian plan is proposed— each member of the Legislative Council to represent a district, including a group of districts! which return members to the General Assembly, but ; who will have no special qualification beyond those . required, by members of the Lower House. The term of election to be seven years instead of.

five. The adoption of the new ;system. to date frohv the next dissolution. Auckland, July 16. At Mr H. LUsk's meeting last.night an . hour elapsed- before tne'candidatH^was heard. r;^tithe : c6nclusion of his speech, a motion waV proposed to the effect that Mr Lusk having- introduced the education tax was not fit to be Superintendent. An amendment was then moved in favor of the candidate, when the lights,were imme-^ ■ diately extinguished and, jthe^ chairman and others on the' platform were hustled Ind.bonnetted;'- The; gas- was'reilighted^ j and the motion against Lusk carried. .It was^'the rowdiest' meeting ever held in I Auckland. , • ! The Rev. D Hamilton, Presbyterian miriister, is missing. .-; ■■ i At the; soiree given by the Orangeriien 1200 people were present. i ;; : Dttnerin, July 16. ; The financial statement for the past years shows the Provincial revenue to be estimated at L 502,743, and ,the.expenditure L 518 ,688. '.!...'-,,' ■ \ The Jockey Club propose to value the Dunedin Cup for next year atL366f ! Chrtstchurch, July 16. A new Bill has been drafted granting exteusive,ppwers to the Corporation: Two hundred persons attended' af dinner given by the Orangemen. Five hundred 1 shares' have been taken? <■ v v up here in a proposed ,Saleyard Company. „.,,... Reefton^ July 16. The Fiery Cross and Just-in T Time Compjanies will erect ' quartz-crushing macjunery jointly, and it is : anticipated 1 that the yield of gold will 'be > more, than three oarices tp the ton. . ;i ; : ; . : Dukedin, I ' July 16. The prisoner in (Bay persohatiori J case has. been cpriyicted., Sen-, tence is deferred. Bail was allowed. ; Mr' '< Hawtiiorrie/ 'Rector f 6i 'the School, has been, heard .at the bar of the House in defence of the management of the school. ; ; : ! : Gbahamstown, July 16. The Pumping Association have resumed operations, arid all'the water- has been got out pf the Caledonian claim.. ,1600, persons were- present. Auckland, July 16. Beatson, captain of the schooner Florence, has been committed for trial on a charge of barratry.