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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 274, 5 June 1874, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.)

_ Dunedin, Thursday Evening. The Provincial Government have recommended the General Government to deepen the Naseby Sludge Channel. The whole of the single girls by the Buckingham and Janet Court have been engaged at from 6s. per week to £35 a year. The demand for servants continuesj The escort brought down 7,265 ounces of gold. .... The Canterbury Provincial Council, by twenty-six against seven, agreed to open the Museum for three hours on Sunday. Ore, containing 82 per cent, of pure copper, has been found at Kaipara. A fire occurred at Paroa, near Greymouth, by which three houses were destroyed, and a girl named Haughton, twelve years old, burned to death. Several residents were severely burned. The loss is estimated at £IOOO. None of the property destroyed was insured.

A Hokitika telegram announces the death at Sydney of Captain Howell, of Wakatip. In the Provincial Council yesterday Mr. Turnbull delivered his Statement. The revenue for 1874-5 he estimated at £450,832. He concluded as follows:—After careful consideration, the Government have arrived at the conclusion not to ask the Council this session to sanction the sale of any blocks of land under the 150 th section of the Waste Lands Act. They proposed to apply, on the security of specific blocks of land, for a loan for the purpose of constructing the branch railways already authorised and to be authorised. There should be no difficulty in getting this loan, as the question of constructing branch railways in places where, they were likely to pay, was one which the Colonial Legislature should look upon favorably, as it would bririg a large, amount of traffic to the main lines. Should the loan n'ot be granted the Government did not anticipate any financial difficulty in providing the necessary funds to carry on works till the, Council meets again, when the, question of raising the funds would be freely discussed. If it were possible to put off large sales of land until branch railways were constructed no doubt (he value of lands would be much enhanced, and a.great deal more made out of them either by sale or lease. If money could be borrowed on satisfactory teruis for necessary works until the pastoral leases fell in the necessity of selling would be greatly diminished. When the leases fell in the laud if re-let, in suitable and moderate-sized lots,; and on shorter terms, would not only bring a handsome annual revenue but the soUleme;;t of a large number cf valuable colonists on the land at present occupied by a few. He concluded by expressing a hope that the finances of the Province would be considered satisfactory. Appropriations are necessarily large. Other Pi ovinces are making such strides, and taking advantage of the present flourishing condition of the country to push on railways, harbor works, and immigration, so that O'agocould not stand stiil. This Province must prudently, yet boldly; go forward and endeavor to inninl:un in the race of progress aoiong ■ the othAr Provinces a position which its gmit resources placed it in., v The debate on the railway resolutions was resumed on Fish's amendment—That, if.ihe light railways' contracts exceeded the appropriation, they should not be recognised ; and, il the .Assembly rati ted the proposed loan, that fresh tenders should be called for the same.

Reid, without defending the coritrac'.s, said they were made with the full concurrence of the Council.

After considerable debate the amendment was negatived by seven to twenty-seven. A third resolution was carried, that an immigration depot be established at Palmers on. Gillies ye»t.erday forwarded his resignation to the Superintendent, which wa3 made oh the following circumstauce.:—ln the course of the debate on the Financial Statement Xurnbull characterised the Speaker's ruling on Monday .as against' all precedent, and unjustifiable. . Gillies at once forwarded hiß resignation to the Superintendent. At midnight lieid and Turnbull apologised. The former proposed, Gillies as Speaker, and was duly elected. Asia's immigrants are getting into great trouble.

On dit Judge Johnson takes charge of the Otago District.

There is now lying at one of the Philippine Islands a dismantled and shattered hulk, all that remains of the once. famous and powerful Spanish galleons which, in the days of Ferdinand and Isabella, and their dieessors, carried the wealth of the Indies to the gorgeous Court of Spain, or became the rich prizes of Drake and Anson during the adventures of those navigators. The Spaniards of the islands regsvrd her with a reverence akin to' that with which we gaze upon the Victory, only that theirs is saddened by the thought of their present low estate, compared with the golden times when the trade win-is filled the sails of the galleons, and bore them one after the other with freights of almost fahulous wealth into busy ports where now but few vessels are to be seen. The old galleon is one of the great , sighb. of'the is jealously guarded' froni injury and damage.- The Spaniards' will point it out, and' "gladly tell you its history, which they have all well conned ; glad to forget the times of the Numancia : and Nunez,. in of the