SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 299, 20 November 1874, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

[The following appeared in our is3ve- <sf ~ Saturday last] - ■ (From our own correspondent). Dunedin, Fridayj 8 p.m. Arrived.—TheMayQueen, from London, eighty-six days out, with sixty-eight passen-v gers. Mr. Edmonds, a cabin passenger, die! on the voyage. - =.*•- There were no nominations from Melbourne for the Dunedin Crip. Mr. Steward addressed his constituents at; Oainaru last, night. He believed if satiafaiv tory machinery for local government were-uh-stituted the time' would soon arrive - Canterbury and Of ago would a-k for its extension to the Middle Island. Nelson, Marlborough, and Wostland were already rips for a cbaiigo of Government. He did not pro 1 | pose to interfere with the land fund of thfr Middle Island, and would be bound, as Bn Otago ntpmber, to resist any gnoh interference. Still, he ventured an opinion that,, were the whole landed revenue of the Colony thrown into one common fund, and (after deducting Colonial charges) divided, pro rata, according to the population, the Middle Islands constituencies would, in the long run, be benefitted. A resolution, of thanks, and of entire confidence, was passed; also the following resolution: "This meeting is of opinion that the time has arrived for the abolition of ' : Provincialism in the North Island, and the substitution therefor of a less costly system of Government, securing the expenditure at '• local revenue (after deducting the Colonial: charges) in the districts in which it is raised: This meeting is also further of opinion that the abolition of Provinces, and the substitution of local government, with a local expen* diture of the local revenue, "should be extended to the Middle. Island as soon as practicable. " OHBISTOHTTECH RACES. To-day Alice Grey won the hurdle race easily, . _. \ The Chri'stchurt'h Plata of 150 bovs. was a magnificent race, w in by a head by Redwood's Ngaro, Traitor second, Tambunni thjrcL jTh6 Metropolitan Handicap, brought out a, field of eight horses, and wras anofher splendid race—Templeton winning by a more