SUMMARY OF NORHERN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 494, 29 July 1857, Page 4

SUMMARY OF NORHERN NEWS.

By the Wonga Wonga we have our regular northern files of papers. As we may be unable to do justice to them for some day 3, in consequence of the simultaneous arrival of an English mail, we shall now glance at their most important contents.

From Auckland we have papers to July 16th. The Provincial Council was tc be dissolved at an early period, on the prtyer of the Superintendent, as the only way of getting rid of the difficulty respecting, the double return of a member. The purification of the Electoral Roll was occupying1 a great dealof attention and of space in the papers. At the annual formation of the roll very great efforts had been made bythe ' progress' party to get {rid of improper names on the roll, and numbers of objecting had been served, but a technical eiror appears to have vitiated the whole proceedings, and at the court for heamg objections all those served were dismissal, and only the names of dead men wsre struck off. The ' progress' party appeal to the General Assembly. In anticipation of the dissolution, Mr. Williamson offers bmself again for Superintendent; addresses are also published by Mr. Busby of the hj of Islands, and by Dr. S. J. Stratford. The style of political discussion,in A'ck* land remains as personal as ever; at last, so far as it is represented by the two lealing1 newspapers; a little personality, we all know, gives a piquant^flavour to dry vga ment, but in Auckland it appears to is at a distance to be all fsauce and very Utle suLstance.

The ; 16th instant is also the latest date from Taranaki, whence we now rceive copies of two newspapers published ii that province. That competition is the ife °J trade is apparent not only in the addiion of a good-looking and carefully got uppaper to the list of the New Zealand peiodieal press, but in the very great impro«roent which has taken place in the jouro'l

1 The improvement Irbi* i\ COl j^ efore the appearance of a kas no doubt a shadow cast before iival, but was no The political item Lthe cortimg recorded, indeed »'" TarTo lte atthe latest date, that the celyS? ministry, the first of the eyßrespo"! ble J cent i y established in that the seals of office P roV" lUe' Jnce of an adverse debate in the L c onsequen^ c

JounCil '«nlitary paper from Wanganui, of % h JdV, iiiforiiw us that the working he! Ib Act presses hard in individual f the S? r evtntive.mea B ures üßually do. aSf # Kelson we have two papers of Firte than those brought by the Canltel" viz one of the,lsth and one of the Bi-bury, > •* The j n f orn , a tion contained Bth- roncemingthe gold-fields states that ierel", weather prevented much activity; is nevertheless mentioned of n men finding 48 .ounces in six days. f 6 Stvboujhtin Nelson during the beXe weeks is stated to be about 700 8 All oarties are sanguine of success r Sdrv weather allows the river to fall Eientlv to enable them to prosecute their I „rs The 'Examiner 1 is arguing the Ltion q^stion on the 'secular' side. From Wellington we have papers of th* 4 and 22nd. The arrivals of the Cossi- " William Alfred, Marchioness, and om Wonga fill them full of news. The Meet that has struck-the private lmagina-. , n of the'lndependent' most forcibly seems be the information derived from our Jumns of the certain failure of Mr. Sewell rawing a loan for land purchase under iperial guarantee. With this text the runs off into delighted anticitions of an overthrow of the Stafford inistry at the next session of the Assembly. Ie humorous sarcasm which pervades the litics of the ' Independent' is here and »re most amusingly developed. We hope at we may shortly have room to indulge r readers with an extract or two. Auckland, Nelson, and Wellington will ringl the next few months sympathise fth Canterbury in the anxiety and excite|nt of a general provincial election.