TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 45, 23 July 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] . I [PEB PBE33 AdSOOIATION.] Dunepin, July 21. Lost night Mr Macandrew waa presented with a purse of fifteen hundred bovb. at a public meeting in the Princess Theatre. Five hundred persons were present, including all the leading citizens. The Mayor presided. In making the presentation, the Mayor said there'were more subscriptions lists to come in. He made a long speech (though politics were kept out of the affair altogether), in which he said tho Public Works and Immgration policy originated in the fertile brain of Mr Macandrew. In replying, Mr Macandrew said he was going to the House with less heart than he ever went. He thought Ofeago had fallen upon evil times, and her pro* gression would not be as great in the future as it ought to be. He wanted nothing at the expenae of the Colony, but objected to Otago being made its miloh coir. If permitted, they could make all their railways without any external aid. The Macandrew banquet last night was attended by about 120 persons. The Mayor was in the chair. The principal toats were those of " Our Guest," proposed by Mr J. Batbgate, R.M,, and responded to by Mr Macandrew ; and " The Parliament of New Zealand," proposed by Mr George Turnbull, and responded to by Mr Stout, As politics were supposed to be excluded, the speeches were for the most part of a complimentary character. At a meeting of artisans and others held in the the Temperanoe Hall last niflbt one thousand persons were present, The following resolutions were carried .— " That this meeting of artisans and others desires to call the attention of the Government to the present state of trade, and hereby protests against the importation of rolling stock, steamboats, and dredges required for public service, and pledges itself to use every legitimate means to stop that importation." " That this meeting views the importation of

rolling stock, steamboats, dredges, &c, required for public service as no injustice to us who have been induced by the Government "to emigrate in the assurance of finding constant employment, and is detrimental to tbe best interests of the Colony." "That this meeting is of , opinion that the importation of suoh | work as has been referred to in the foregoing resolutions is unnecessary, and that it can be manufactured here; and that it is the duty of the Government to encourage Colonial industry."