SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 326, 4 June 1875, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

1 (From'our own correspondent). following appeared in our issue of Saturday last r—] * ■• : ' ; ' • '' Dunedin, Friday," 8 p.m. The Government aite pledged to bring down" re-framed Estimates, and • other Government proposals, on Monday. It is not thought that the new Estimates will ever see the Committee of Supply._ Several members who voted with Bastings will now vote against him on the-first opportunity. A permanent Executive will probably be formed about Wednesi day, after which the" remainder of the business will fly through! A special telegram in the ' Times' says thd the Solicitor-General is busily engaged in drafting a new Constitution Act,* which will -include provisions for the abolition of TProvincialistn in both Islands. Yogel has, it is saidsent out. notes of his views on the matter* Sir Donald M'Lean will lead in the House of Representatives during Mr. Vogel's absence. .It is believed the Assembly'wiH be asked to make the session short, passing merely the Estimates and necessary Cumming, M.P.C. for Aparims, died yea' /terday.

The delay of the mails was Tiot caused by detention of the Atlantic steamer, but by the Pacific line being washed away. The Mikado's outward voyage from Syd-* ney to San Erancisco was done in 29£ days, the quickest on record. She delivered the mails in San Francisco"°ninety-six 'hours ahead of contract time.

Obituary:—Lord Hobart, Governor of Ma* drag, and Chief Baron Pigofct. The Emperor's signing the Bill abolishing the monasteries in Germany," is said to be owing to Bismarck's threatening to resign. The greatest excitement prevails at Athens over-the elections. The Government-have concentrated 5000 troops in the city,-wliich is in a state of siege. An impending plot has been discovered in KMva for the massacre of all the Russians in the territory. - Another terrible fire has occurred at Chicago. Two million dollars' -worth of property was destroyed^ The Beecher-Tilton trial is still r unfinished. The Moody-Sankey revivals in London, are causing extraordinary excitement.