SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

[The follmoing appeared in ow edition of Saturday last: —] Dunedin, Friday, 8.30 p.nw , Bastings' speech in opening was very weak, and Reid was extremely sarcastic. -Eish and; Stout made the best speeches in the" debate. Turnbull, being greatly taunted, attacked Ba.Bt.ings sfcronf:'y._ Ho '"TiTffP'l h.ixn with, over-riding the votes of the Council, favuringthe Tuapeka district, and making discreditableappointments without the sanction of the Executive. Tolmie, Daniel, and Ireland said they intended to vote for the "motion, if Bastings'' explanation proved satisfactory. Bastings replied in a strong speech, and emphatically denied spending moneys on theTuapeka road beyond what the Executive - sanctioned. He charged Turnbu-1 with utteriy.-neglect-ing the public business, and accused him of making false statements about him.-. (Bastings) analysing the railway tenders before they were sent to the Executive. .- -,-, '■-." Here a scene ensued. ' -! - *" Bastings apologised, and' withdrew the ex~pression. " Turnbull withdrew his statement, and ex- . pressed regret at having made it. Bastings continued to say that he had three .times offered to resign, but it had not been ." accepted. Said i hat he himself proposed postponing the light rnilway tenders, because the.price was too high.' He charged Webster and* Turnbull with sanctioning the road vote of"" - - £2,400, to Oamaru when the engineer certified that £-1500 was sufficient. . i At 2.20 this morning the division was: 1 taken, with the result as known." The largeness of the majority surprised.the Government, who thought it would be very close! The'following is the division on the "want of." confidence mot'on : '■ • ■ Ayes—l 7: Bastings, Brown, Browne, Clark, , Clarke, de Lautour, Eish, Green, Hazlett, j Ireland, -M'Dermid, M'Glashan, M'Kenzie, ! Oliver, Reeves, Sumpter, Turton. , Noes—24: Allan, Daniel, Davie, Haggitfc,. i Henderson, Kinross, Lumsden, Menzies, Mol->: I lison, Mackellar, M'Lean, M'A'eil, Reid, Reynolds, Roberts, Rogers, Shand, Stout, TescheI maker, Tolmie, Turnbull, Webster, Wilson. ; Wood. : ! The revelation of the secrets of the prison--1 house affected several votes. ]' The only- business to-day is that Eish has. given notice of the appointment of a Committee to enquire into the finances of the "Pro-' ivince. '-.-", ■ The Council agreed to give effect to the recommendation of the Superintendent re theestablishment of a Branch Lunatic and Ine-. briate Asylum. The Judge declined to hear the application for a new trial Macassey„v. BpII, until-his return from the Appeal Court. ------ Eeatherstone announces the despatch," during April, of ten ships, witli 5230 immigrants. Three of the ships were for Otago, with 1,200inimigrants. He expects to despatch more during* the months of May and June. -. . ."- - CHEISICHURCH. "' • /• ■ Tho Chamber of Commerce urges the pass- ■*- ing of the Insolvency Bill of last session. , 25,000 laborers at Durham struck because' -their wages were reduced. % Oh the sth Serrano captured'Bilboa, and' entered the city amid great rejoicings—the, 1 Carlists dispersing in all directions.. - - At Wellington, 'the want of confidence in. the'Execiitivewas defeated by three votes; The borings of the upper harbor show no impediment to the proposed improvement. The Waste Lands Board has instructed the rangers to prosecute, with the utmost vigor,, all cases of destroying bush reserves. The 'Wellington, audit warrant case, between the Provincial and General Govern-, ments, in the Court,-of Appeal, was concluded, last evening. Their Honors reserved judg- ; ment.- ? ; - CHARLESTON. At 7.30 p.m. last evening a very large and. . beautiful meteor passed over the It made its appearance from the south-east zenith, and travelled withgreat velocity, be-, ing visible only about twenty seconds. Tt was, so glaring that a momentary panic ensued, many thinking thit a fire had broken out. Its. ' •effects were as visible as in broad daylight.