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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 350, 19 November 1875, Page 3

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!(l?rom our ovm correapwalwiM Government advised Sir Oearisf Bowes and Sir Julius Vogel leave Frisco Bn sj«c<-«n--ber 8. ' Woman named. Draye an immigraut j-- ; r Merope, had been committed to a lunatic asylum by the Kesidwit at "i irr:'ard and left in charge of Her huaoaudin the barracks awaiting removal. At eight .o'clock Tuesday night Draye Went out iot a, moment when his wife lock-ad'hiaiout. On the door being broken open, she was found t<> have killed her son two yeara old, having almost severed him with a, raz'?;rand to havecat her own throat severely.' "She is in a dyin' state. " - • f"; ° Albion at Hokitika A , & LT Ringarooma with Suez mail at Bluff last night. . >•. /. ;t. .-r -V^v. The Serapis,: with, the:Piince" of ; Wales oa entered the. harbor anud/royal' sal of the squadron. . landed in thu afternoon, and met jrith an enthusiastic receßtiop. ._ if ." "xo'SDOif; ••" ""• , - at the Lord Mayor's • said that a war with China w,as lately immi. but "had been averted.' The Govfernmeiit r®i gretted that affairs 'in Turkey were less satisfactory. Circumstances-Were critical, but he was convinced. theJresult wouli%'satisfaca ;.; v il --/ -i " DtjNECIN. ■. - i* " Address to-the People "of Otago " ia .thd title of - al--pamphlet- -the" Superintsndentis-. sues,, in which he gives expressidifto a few thoughts regarding %he political situation. His final paragraph states:—l cannot disguise from myself the: fact-^hat-couldVe divest ourselves of- the" idea;.of itbe unity of New Zealand, the tr.ue.. remedy for existing evils in so far as Otago is.concerneJ would3?a that the Province should be'erected"into an mdependent Colony. Even people unanimous, on this pomt there are'difßcultiea in the way vrbiclr would*takJl Witch time to surmount. As it is,'practically the remedy at this moment is to send to the new Parliament .men who will spare "the country from that plethora of government with which it has for years been. scOvuved- men who will l see tqat. that; the.; Assembly. shall £ shape of a simple and-inexpensive federal council, dealing only; with-very, fow subjects, and. that the two .islan'ls and-"the various Provinces in each shall be separate,; /district, and independent as regards the disposal -and control.of their revenues anil .the management of their loial affairs. o?£o\irse there.must be adjustment as between the Provinces;- 'as;to the |payment*' of existing. Colonial liabilities.' -vthiclr adjustment would have to be-regrilated; By 'the Tfederal Legislature." In • advises' thit if at any CGntested'eleciaon'thera shotddj;bfe~niore than 6ne"<4htiiC4fitrajis£candidate for the same' seat that all'ljutone'sliollM retire, * or the.-eleKtbrs confine their supporSto ; one and the' same"candidate} tagi*'*? t—.'vjo'i