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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 281, 25 July 1874, Page 3

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STJPPLEM KNTAttY TEL EG RAMS. PARLIAMENTARY NEWS. ■ : -V (From our special correspondent.) ! " --Wellington, July 23, 8 p.m. ,/ Macandrew carried his motion affirming the desirability of exempting firemen from serving on juries, though the Government only undertake'to deal with the matter next ' year. , . '

The General Government are alone responsible for the disallowance of the Gold Duty Repayment Ordinance. Sh'eehan's motion for the readjustment of the representation was met by the previous question, which the Government carried by 33 against 30. The most of the Otago members opposed the Government. Yesterday Shepherd moved the second residing of Ms Goldfields Bill, which Pyke seconded, saying it was'a great improvement on the last Bill, and really a valuable measure. The second reading was agreed to. Mervyn gave notice of his intention to add a clause to the amended Otago Land Act, increasing the extent of holdings to 300 acres. „The principalproyisions of*the new Licensing Bill make the appointment of. members of the Licensing Court of two years duration. The public house "licensee may have more than one bar. ; Wholesale and packet licenses are issuable by the Provincial Treasury. .Where fees are the Corporation property, wholesale and packet licenses are issuable by the Mayor. Quarterly Licensing meetings' are to be held on : the first Tuesdays hi December, March, June, September. On application for renewal, it is not necessary to get the householder's certificate, No householder's certificate is required for bottle license renewals. All licenses must be granted as a matter of course, unless notice of objection be given. Personal attendance is unnecessary to procure a renewal.

The third:reading of the Deceased. Wife's: Sister's Bill was carried by 33 to 17. Richardson, in answer to Mervyn, said that the Government were prepared to. reconsider their decision re deepening Naseby Sludge Channel, and would be able to meet the wishes of the inhabitants of the district. The Government -will oppose the third reading of O'Neill's Plans of Towns Bill. Business in House to-day unimportant. 4. Dunedin, Friday, 8.30] p.m.; The nomination of City Councillors toolt place to-day. The interest displayed was :unusnally great, owing to the increase in the number of Councillors. Thomas Burt was proposed by proxy, his : brother signing the paper in his behalf. This is an unusual proceeding, and a protest was en-* tered. The matter was referred to the Corporation Solicitor, who said it was perfectly legal. All the other lawyers and all the Councillors say it is absurd," and an illegal nomination—not worth the paper it is written oh. The Attorney-General's opinion has been telegraphed for. At a meeting of the congregation of the First Church, the Rev. Sims Mackie, of North Brighton, Victoria, was elected permanent pastor. AUCKLAND. The steamer Tartar. grounded on the Caldron Reef, but was lightered and got off without injury. After leaving Honolulu on the 22nd instant she had been set forty miles to the eastward by the current. LONDON. It is stated that a slave ship with 275 negvoes, from Mozambique bound for Madagascar, was captured by the English man-of-war Daphne in March. • Fourteen slaves were put on board with only two days' provisions, > and the voyage was prolonged to eight. - Their sufferings are alleged to have been ihdiscribable, and many died in great agony. The prospect of a settlement of the lock-out

in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire seems very distant

The Norfolk Farmers Labor Defence Association contemplate an alteration of the rules. A general meeting of the Ministers is called to consider the course lo be taken.

The 'Post' says:—"The Public Worship Regulation Bill, now before Parliament, which is intended to restrain ritualistic practices, threatens to lead to the coalition of the High Church clergy and which may result in an attempt to replace the present members for Oxford University with Gladstone and Montague Bernard. Gladstone heads the opposition to the Bill."

Extensive inundations have occurred in' Hungary. Many villages were swept away. The Turkish steamer Kars, with 330 persons on board, was run into, in the sea of Marmora, by an Egyptian, vessel. She sunk, and 320 lives were lost. Despatches from Algiecs state that the insurrection in Fez was extinguished by the Sultan bombarding the town. Ninety of the; inhabitants were killed. A letter from a China missionary, published in Paris, states there were 80,000 Christiansin China, but that 1,000 had been strangled, burned, or drowned. He adds he does not expect to escape from martyrdom.