PROROGATION OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1844, 3 July 1874, Page 2

PROROGATION OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

[ANGLQ-AUSTRALIAIT PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.] |: Hokitika, July 2. The Provincial Council was prorogued to-day. The Superintendent delivered the following speech ■:— - Mb, Speaker and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council. In bringing the second session of the Provincial Council to a termination, allow me to thank you for your hearty cooperation in dealing with Borne of the important matters referred to in my opening address. r The passing of the Education Ordinance I look upon as one of the mo3t important features of the session, and I believe that the measure you have submitted to f me as the result of- your deliberations, is one. which will be found to be fair in its operation on all classes of the community, and will' enable us to j remove one great difficulty whioh we have labored under for so many years. The Ordinance passed against the trespass of Gattje will /remove a difficulty which existed, and the Hokitika Street Closing

Ordinance enables legal effect to be given to action already taken for the ; benefit ofjhe town of Hokitika. The 'resolutions you have adopted recommening the borrowing of money for carrying on the most pressing works required for further improvement of the pcovice, I will use my best endeavors to give effect to, and seeing the care aud attention which have been bestowed on the selection of only such works as are likely to be immediately reproductive, I feel assured will have considerable weight, both with the Government and the Legislature, when the matter comes on for consideration. 1 have to thank you for the further appropriation you have been pleased to grant for the . service of the Province during the remainder of the year. The decision arrived at by the Council in the early part of the session, in favor of having an Executive, has now been given full effect to, and I trust I may be pardoned by expressing the hope that, . in future sessions, the necessity which existed for the creation of an Executive— — [Here there appears to be a break in the telegram. It goes on to say : — ] It will certainly 'be a personal relief in many ways, and I shall have pleasure in availing myself of the advice of such gentlemen as may possess your confidence. During the forthcoming session; of the General Assembly, I hope, with the valuable assistance of the representatives of ihe Coast, that many matters on which you have made representations to the General Government may be put right, and that further progress may be made towards completing the harbor works of Grey and the extension of the benefits of; rail communication to Westland.

On behalf of his Excellency I have now the honor to assent to the following Ordinances :— Education Ordinance, 1874; Irespass and Impounding Ordinance, 1874 ; HoHtika Street Closing Ordinance, 1874 ; Appropriation Ordinance, 1874. I now declare this Council prorogued. Port Chalmers, July 2. .. The ship Dunedin was spoken with by the tug Geelong off the Heads last; evening, eighty days, from Greenock, and eighty-two days from the Scilly. 500 immigrants on board. Fourteen deaths occurred on the voyage. She passed on to Lyttelton with a fine S.W. breeze.