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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 290, 19 September 1874, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGrRAMS

(From our own correspondent). Dunedin, Friday, 8 p.m. Cuthbertson addressed his constituents at Invercargill. He strongly defended the action of the majority in the Assembly, re Provincial abolition. It was proposed to thank, him for his address and condemn his support of the Government, but the proposition found' no seconder. An amendment, expressive of confidence, and cordially agreeing with his action in the Assembly, was carried with only five dissentients. - v J. L. Gillies addresses his constituents andthen resigns his seat in the Assembly for Waikouaiti, consequent on his acceptance of the Secretaryship to the Harbor Board. . The Finance Committee of the Board will report whether it is necessary that he should resign his seat in the Provincial Council. The Cromwell Quartz Company crushed 1160 ounces from the old root. . . The Plicebe with the San Francisco mail?,' arrives here to-morrow. The Otago to-day' landed some fine ■ racers for Coombes, of Tokomairiro. ■ A minor named Koss was killed by a fall of earth at Wetherstones. Mr. J. L. G-jxlies was appointed Secretary to tlie Harbor Board tit the last meeting. - . Th r Cromwell Company have turned - out a cake of gold in weight 1,140 ounces. This fine result is on view in the.'local bank before being sent to Dunedin. , Wf. learn from the ' Tuapeka Times' that —"An offer from George Proudfoot to con-

struct a deep water channel from- Port Chal-~ mers to Dane din, twenty-threefeet deep, receiving payment by the Board's debentu was referred to tbe Works Committee." The difficulty is not the construction, but the 1 maintaining;

_ We learn that eleven men, "with four families—including sixteen children', the eldest: being only thirteen years of age—have, arrived in waggons, with tents—the men to> work on the Head Race. How in the world are the men to work all day, and yet look after and house these poor women and children ? It seems monstrous-to send families up to districts where tlie climate is, at intervals, so severe, to take their - chance in tents—a life that the hardiest, men cannot stand for any time without showing bad, effects afterwards. Talk, indeed, about cruelty to animals! What about cruelty to human, -beings?

The ' Tuapeka Times' has the following"telegram relating to the Premier's meeting at Auckland :—September 16 : The Premier addressed his constituents at Auckland lastnight. " The Choral Hall was crammed, therebeing scarcely standing room. About 2000 persons were paeked in the building. The speech was delivered amongst frequent demonstrations of disapprobation, and sometimesapplause. At the conclusion Mr. Sees, barrifter, attempted to speak, but a great tumult arose, and ultimately Mr. Vogel obtained a hearing, when he said he had called the meeting to explain his views, not to hear Mr. Reesspeak. He then wished them good-night.. The Chaii man vacated the chair, and with; Mr. Vogel and others retired from the platform amid prolonged howling. Mr. Rees then commenced to speak, and ask-ed what would; the people of Sydney and England think when they heard how Mr. Yogel lud left a public meeti.:g in the Colony. The meeting, afterexpressing disapproval of Mr. Yogel's action,cheered Mr. Rees, and gradually dispersed.