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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 335, 6 August 1875, Page 3

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' Dunedin, Thursday Evening. j Sibbald immediately, "and offers '£lo for the best design.,.... .' ~ r ~" I On F "Taesd'ay 'taniierjl, Cumberla n 4 " was._burned_ down.' l Tiie'fire'is-'stippbse3. tO : iiiV6-been-caSsed * by damp getting among.iriflammablebj,les. Coomb e loses £IO,OOO, andtvas only in. sured^fc>r®LoCks. ;r A -.lOO'S.l'-\ 7 > i

condernns-tbe' : present"G-asw'ork : s l as ax:d - suggests- building 'lnfewworks at a cost of £34,000.-J" e |

At Oamacu, onr'STonday night, a boy jin a fe^v minutes tWsK'op v was in a blaze. 7;The Jlames spread to Mrs.* Spencer's drapery" establi shtn ent, Mr. Spencer's —cabinet- ■ r paper's; Pern's butchery. "At eleven o'clock all ' were in-ash.es. , - Larkjn •and r ,-Bqxall weije s insured for otEer" places were-, uninsured.,.,. T ... Wpomark and jattef" Ki<4l Memi«g%ave arrived froinOEoadon. THe latter brings 300 — I *- [ At a-meeting of-the Lawrence- IVEunicipal Council a- resolution adopting the principles p§ flje Aboltion Bill, was uiiaimously adopted, and ahope expressed that the measure would be "carried'through •tliifc sessibn. At iTpesday night (a/ .ißre broke out in th eJMQ.tr e Hotel, which" wis totally destroyed. Damage, £6003. Stock

At- the>feeling 7 .app.eajrs strongly in favor of the Abolition Bill," but at Lyttelton the feeling is against it. j In the Assembly yesterday. Sif i&eorge Grey announced the formation of an or-, ganised Opposition, with the object of inquiring "strictly into the r: firiance ; of the Colony.' He was about to. blame the Go-'" for .his action, in connection with Bill,""wKcfn he was inter-v rupted'l>j. the Speaker, who pointed -iout that the Go>ssrnor was not Tesponsible jfco the House,. were. \ The Wellitigton savs that Grey'ss speech unworthy occasion, and would not advance the prospects of liis party, the birth of which it p.roclaunedJ 7 Grahamstown, Christeliurch, Emdru, r and Seeft'on have declared in favor of immediate .abolition. , ' \ ... The 'second reading of; the ' measure comes on to>nibrrow;; The Oppositionhave determined to agree to the second reading, and. pass what supply is needed if the abolition. mea,sure is npt pushed this session. If the.„Go,vernirierit decline thbir .proposal; the.Opposition will speak against time, hoping to force a'.dissolution; " •

Richardson delivered his Public Works StatementJasfc night,to afuU House. The. Chambei;. was:found .td 'be full of smoke, and the House adjourned for fifteen minutes, when it wasT found that fire was below the Speaker's' room.-. It was immediately '•' : ' j: r ; j Humor already says that Sir P. D. Bell is not likely to. be Speaker, again, and points to o'K.orke-as his successor. Parliament expires by effluxiou of tiine on February 25tn next.;f 1 |