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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 272, 22 May 1874, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(b rom our own correspondent.) ♦ Dunedin, Thursday Evening. The consideration of the/High School abolition resolutions has been postponed tillTuesday.

In the Council this afternoon petitions, signed by 1,470 - persons, against Sunday trains, were presented.

Turnbull moves, on Tuesday, that only one train in the morning and one in the afternoon" on Sundays he run, except in cases of urgency. '

The motion by de Lautour for a flying survey of a railway from Waihemo .to Clyde through, the Maniototo Plain, Ida Valley, and the Valley of the lUanuherikia, resulted in the Government agreeing to have a com--parative survey with the J'uapeka route. After sitting for an hour the Council adjourned till-Tuesday, several of the members protesting against the waste of time. The Surat Relief Committee held a final meeting, and awarded ten guineas to Hayward, harbor-master at'Catlin's River, in recognition of his services. The balance, over £4O, is to go to; the Benevolent Institution. 172 persons were relieved.

A large deputation from Lawrence urged upon the Superintendent the necessity for the construction of a sludge channel there. Macau drew promised' to move the Provincial Council'in the matter. The oiily business at the Waste Lands' Board was to order the lease of acoppermining claim r at Moke Creek to be executed by Howorth and Bradshaw, otherwise the land would be declared open for application. At Roxburgh there has been appointed a Receiving Officer for land on deferred payments.

papers contain a letter correspondence between Barton and Smith arising out of Ma'cassey's case. .Smith says the license allowed counsel is- so great that it became the duty of the bar to give expression to- public opinion. Barton attacks the Judge,, and con.cludeß by refusing Smith's friendship, and declining to hold si brief with him. The.Hurbor Improvement Regulations, as tabled by the Government, was carried bv 23 to 7.

On the arl.jo..rued debate on Hundreds the Provincial Secretary said tlio Government proposed to ask that each o£ the seven deferred payment, blocks should' be included in small Hundreds. ■ Instead of asking 2,000 and 2,500 acres, they would ask double, and in no case a smaller area than 5,000. They would ask the Counoil to pass a resolution with a view to avoiding litigation, and setting at rest any doubt as to power to Bet aside land on deferred- payments —rocommending in all an area, of ,40;000 acres to. be proclaimed into Hundreds. . That only involved an increase of- lands to be opened to 20,000' aores. He then proposed to open one. half on deferred payments, and the other half for absolute sale in alternate blocks.—The original motion was agreed to. . ' : "WELMNGTOS'. ■ In the General. > w ynod a discussion-, took place rpcarding the' Bishopric 6f Duaedin. The Bishop of "Waiapu moved that a. statement be put on record of the grounds upon, which the General Kynod acted ia the matter. The majority of the .speakers, were anxious that some such statement should beprepared,,. s_q that tine false impression in

England might be removed, and a Committee I was appointed to draw up such a statement. ' A recorr-mendation was laid upon the table ''that the Rev. John Selwjn be appointed Bishop of Melanesia. v CABLEGRAMS PER OTAGO. London, May 5. The Pope has raised Melbourne to an archbishopric, under Goold, the . present; bishop; Ballarat into a bishopric, under Dr." O'Connor; and Sandhurst into a bishopric under Dr. Fortune. The race for the two thousand guinea, stakes was won by Atlantic, Reverberation second, and Ecossais third. -.'=.- ■ A < Calcutta telegram, dated May 13, states that Ihe G-overmnont; are . relieving two millions suffering from famine. . Three iuridred thousand tons of grain was served out by the authorities.

In the'wool market the prices are without noticeable' alteration. 80,000 bales were sold:""',.""'.