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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 233, 22 August 1873, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.) Dunedin, Thursday Evening. AUCKLAND: Some burglars entered the Custom House on Saturday erening Jast by removiug panes of glass. They rummaged the di'awei-a, but

• fin diner no monpy proceeded to Camnbfiirs stores, and stole several pairs of boots. ' • G-B.A HAMSTOW3. The first sod of the.railway is to be turned this'day (Thursday). The * Press' suggests that a testimonial should be presented to Mr Kelly, the local representative, for his exertions in connection with the local railway. On Bishop Moran's arrival he was presented with an address by the Catholic residents. Two men named Marant and Tvoutman, for stealing amalgam from the Association Battery, were each sentenced to six months imprisonment. "WtfLLING-TON. .Returns laid before Purliamen' show the expenditure on the civil list for 1872-3 to he about £21,975. NAPIER. The petition for the establishment of a municipality has been numerously signed, anJ. a public meefiug is called for Friday. I NELSON. I. A blank calen.kir was presented in the ' Supreme Court, which met yesterday; The Judge delivered a vharge on the duties and rights of grand,jurors. Mary Anne. "Wouldham, convicted of manslaughter, during last session, and case reserved for Court of Appeal, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment, in addition to the sentence she is already undergoing. A public dinner is to- be given to Andrew Duncan, who goes Home cs Immigration Agent for the Province, v under a resolution of the Provincial Council. Mr. Stevens, late M.H.It. for Selwyn, goes Home via Melbourne to-day. He refused to accept any public demonstration. ■, AUCKLAND. Bishop Morau has evoked keen criticism in consequence of. his denunciation of 'secret societies. Speaking.cm"secular education at the Thames he said that there were only two -churches—the Catholic Church and Satan's Church, and the latter .formed- secret societies. • The Albion, from Newcastle, reports the schooner Mary, of Sydney, as having been wrecked near Newcastle. All hands were .saved. WELLINGTON. The second reading of the Westland Province Bill was passed. A Bill, adding £.500 a year to the Governor's salary, was read a first time. A warm-debate took place on the allow-• •ances to Bowen. Considerable progress was made with the Estimates-last night. -_ ' Mr. Bathgate got considerably ' : roused." In reply}tcf Mr_ Reid, Mr. Richardson said that,--till:he. saw the ' Star/ he. did not knowthat the--truck system was in forcer""''-In nearly all the railway contract's clauses had been introduced..prohibiting it. The Government would take stronger steps. A meeting of the Otago and Canterbury members was held.'yesterday, to consider various questions raised in the Financial Statement. Amongst these are the proposals to take security in land for future lines of railway, and for the construction of branch railways; the power of Provinces to borrow; the raising of a loan to purchase Native Land in the JNorth Island. A Siib-Committee of three from each Province was appointed, to draw up resolutions for consideration at a future meeting; these resolutions to be based upon the opinions expressed at the meeting —viz., that the main lines named in the schedule of the Railways Bill of 1871 be completed out of the Loan without land security; that the proposal to take land be resisted; that the two Provinces would of themselves construct various branch lines; that the meeting was not unfavorable to a loan for the purpose of purchasing a landed estate for the North Island Province.

Taiaroa wants a Middle Island Maori called to the Council. The Rational Bank Bill has passed. The Government have promised to support . the Coal Mines llegulations Act, and to prevent the truck system. The census is to "be taken next year. . In reply to Mr. Gillies, Mr. Richardson said that the Government knew nothing of the action taken "by the Otago Waste Lands Board. No Province was so jealous of interference, and;yet no Province sent so many members who were constantly asking for in-„ terference. On being informed of the rumor that the Board had lately sold lands within proclaimed Goldiields, without previously withdrawing them from the operation of the 'Act, the Ministers had telegraphed to Dunedin and been informed that the Board had power to do so. DUNEDIST. At the Waste Lands Board to-day, an opinion from the Provincial Solicitor was read, to the effect that the whole of the reserves for Hospitals, Schools, and charitable purposes* were illegal. The Board intends to take the opinion of the Supreme Court on the question. An engine belonging to the Port Chalmers railwav ran off the i rails through the points bei"g blocked. One carriage was smashed, but no further" damage was sustained. The traffic was interrupted during the remainder' of the day. The full returns of the Wskafcip eleciion arc as follows :—Pyke, 226 ; Manners, 192 ; Innes, 17is Barton, 101. It is corKidei-ed that Mandei's would have been successful if an accident had; not prevented hio> from visiting the outlying districts. „ " i . ". A--. ■