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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 319, 10 April 1875, Page 3

Sir George Grey was elected to the As sembly for City West without opposition In a speech he referred to the complaints against hi.n -.for-.stirring': up Provincial jealousies, and said it was the old story of the wolf and the lamb. When other Provinces threatened to abolish Auckland, they commenced the war, and surely he could not be blamed tor informing the people what rights the Constitution conferred upon them. As regarded Wellington, it must always be the great city, owing to the possession of an excellent harbor, and the fine land-between there and New Ply- , mouth, which would be opened up by railways. The question of capital he considered a very small one.. He spoke of the excellent land in the Province of Auckland as certain to secure permanent prosperity. He likened the General Assembly proceedings at Wellington to Dieken's description.of Nova Scotia legislation, " like looking at the British Parliament, when at the wrong end of a telescope." He saw nothing at all in the present system to deserve its continuance. Since -he - had been in office, he had found that large sums of money had.been withheld from people's uses. If Auckland had what she was entitled to, she would still be able to carry on public works successfully. He spoke of the £60,000 voted for roads in the north. He asked whether it was right for a man, absent and representative of nobody, to take upon himself to direct. the expenditure of that money, while," he, returned by 14,000 colonists, should not be thought .worthy to have a vote in the matter. He recommended that the Gen eral Assembly should meet at once, and that Auckland be granted what she is entitled to. Without Mr. Vogel, the present Government would fall to pieces directly. Was it right that the interests of the colonists should be sacrificed for "one man? He said he would resign at any time, if called upon by a majority of his constituents.

■ Seven battalions .ot. Carlists attacked Bilboa, and, after a vigorous bombardment, assaulted ' Puenta Nue'vo," and' 'Arbota'nshe, which were taken'and retaken' three times. The fighting was desperate on both sides and the Carlists were finally repulsed. The Alfonists subsequently attacked the Carlists in the entrenchments, and were in turn repulsed with a loss of 200 killed and wounded. The Carlists are prepaiing for a grand effort against Puycerday. General I,asernais appointed chief of Alfonso's military cabii.ct.