SUPPLEMENTAL TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 324, 21 May 1875, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTAL TELEGRAMS.

- (From bur own correspondent). Saiwfday last -*: ' }-^i: : -.':■;:';':':■'--.. i. \..

i " : "-,'■= "-■"." Dunedin; Friday; 8 p.in. ■ overturning ofan express at Saddle Hilii'one Chinaman was killed and two seriously mjured./ .. " . The.Eidnees-street business excites great attention. It is said now that the Coiporation J has no legal power to proceed; and, if they attempt to do so, the Supreme Court will be moved. The meeting of citizens on Monday is sui-e to be noisy. • Tne Governor's speech at the Provincial Council lunch, yesterday was generally approved. : ;'-; : ' i... Grey transmitted to his Provincial Council a recommendation. to vote £IOOO to Williamson's '-fairiily,V 'Reader Wood informed the Council that Grey would not accept a responsible Government ; At Oamaru the enquiry into the wreck of the Elderslie resulted in the certificates being returned to the master and mate.' : News have been, received from the Society Islands of violent earthquakes there,' and a tidal wave. , Thirty lives lostj principally children, through the wave. In moving for copies of. the Mount Ida Public Works contracts, de Hauteur charged the Government with neglect. He said they had allowed other Provinces to draw--forge sums in excess of the original votes for their water supply works, while"that for Nuseby was curtailed ; and time been largely exceeded, while the contracts were let under the estimate. -"> Reid said de Laufour had drawn largely on'. his" imagination. Keid to-dav told Siimpter-the General Government had undertaken to bear the whole of the cost of bridging the Maerewhenua.