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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 169, 31 May 1872, Page 5

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(From our own Correspondent.) 7 THE NASEBY COURT HotfsE. . - > STRIKE of the DUNEDIN ]?OLICE FORCE. / GOVERNMENT OPPOSITION. RUMORED LOSS of.tb/e CITY of. MELBOURNE IMMIGRATION. Dunedin, Thursday, 5 p.m. A motion by Mr./ Armstrong, for placing the sum of j£?soo on the Supplementary Estimates for a Court House at Naseby, wals opposed by the Government, and loett on a division of 17 against 8. / In consequence qsf the motion for the increase of pay | being lost, seventeen constables an»d three sergeants have refused to pepf/brm duty. On "Wednesday aiternlfcn special constables were sworn in' to meet the emergency. ,j Up to the present time they are still on strike. \ The meeting heM in the Provincial Council Library on Saturday, to consider the personnel of the Government, was composed wolely of Goldfields members. There were present, Messrs. Shepherd, Hicfe'ey, Mervyn, Innes, Armstrong, J. CD. Brown, G. F. C. Browne, Basting*?, and Daniel. Mr. Shepherd was votted to the chair. The meeting came to. the unanimous conclusion that theyjr could not support, and had no confidence in the . Govern-

ment as at present constituted, -t was agreed to secure the co-operation of other sections of the Council in obtaining a reconstruction of the Grovernment. A "no confidence " motion is expected to be tabled. Mr. Luckie has been elected by a majority of 151 for the City of Nelson.

A ' World's from London says that the British Government will not resign. They have agreed to promise now to endow a Catholic University in Ireland. Auckland, May 27.

The Hero sailed for Sydney »vith the Erisco mails for Australia. She will keep a look-out at the mast head,.and burn blue lights "and rockets, in order to attract the attention of the castaways of the City of Melbourne, in the event of her loss. Several vessels from the coast report no sign of her. Lyttelton, May 27.

The .document published in the Christ church 'Star' relative t to the ship Matoaka, alleged to have been picked up off the Ocean Beach near Dunedin, is written apparently on the sheet of a note-book with pencil. It purports to have'been written by the first mate, and states he and some A.B.'s in long boat were making for the S.W. of New* Guinea, and that all passengers were lost. Wellington, May 27. The Agent-General, according to information received by the San Francisco mail, has made arrangements for the despatch of 2200 emigrants to New Zealand' during April and May ; 120 areto be sent to Auckland, 150 to Wellington, 400 to Napier, 130 to Picton (via Wellington), 500 to Canterbury, 600 to Otago, besides about 300 that are to be sent to various ports under the auspices of Messrs. Brogden. The total number will be composed of 1400 British, 600 Germans, and 200 Scandinavians. The Germans are to be sent in equal proportions to Canterbury and Otago, and the Scandinavians to Napier.