DUNEDIN.

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

DUNEDIN.

(Frcim 1 ourown correspondent.) Dunedin, Monday. The vexed question of the widening of Princes steeet is again under the consideration of the City Council. It will be remembered that the awards of the arbitrators empjoyedby the Council were ~objected to by the citizens, which resulted in an appeal to the Supreme Court. The decision was. adverse to the Corporation. At the suggestion of the Citizens' Committee a compromise is proposed. The solicitors for and on behalf of the Manse reserve tenants are now agreeable to accept the sum of £20,000 in full of all claims, and also pay the law costs of the Citizens' Committee. After considerable discussion the matter was referred to the Finance Committee to report, with instructions that the cost shall- not exceed £20,000. •'-

Mr. James Copeland, the well-known brewer, died early* on Sunday morning last of congestion of the lungs. He was long connected with the North Dunedin Rifles, being their captain. The funeral takes place* onTuesday (to-morrow) at the North Dunedin Cemetery. The City Guards, Artillery, .and- North Dunedin Rifles.will follow. The Artillery Band will play the Dead March in Saul. The member for Bruce, Mr. Murray, has addressed his constituents. He gave his ideas of what should be the kind of local s>lf , government which wo should have. -Of course he' had it all sketched out. It is said it is his particular forte the framing of constitutions.' He has his fling at the Press, and- calls some of the members of the Assembly who tre connected with] itliterary? >;vagrants, and others a disgrace to the Parliament. He ing Sir George Grey, and what are called the Opposition. He charges the. Native Minister willi, acquiring one hundred; thoiisand pounds worth of land from the natives, and says * that the reason why Abolition is asked is-that a lot of capitalists are in waiting to acquire simple of the runs in plago Canterbury as sooh'as 'the lease 'expires, and that the more mb'riey the Cetitralists get frO'm the people the more coiTU'pV they will be.' The lite legislation^the ' disqiiSlmcatibn Act, ought-to be called the Corrupt Prac-tises-.indemnity*. Act-wUut of "the eleven millions spent we-had l only'about shew .in railways aiid'w.orks of a 'reproductim.character The rest had been swallowed up'by the defence and native purposes. •. It is sard that by an oversight or design the amended Waste Land Act is a perfect bungle, inasmuch as no more land can be proclaimed under the deferred payment system excgjpt on the recommendation of the Provincial Council, and these are prohibited from meeting. If correct, settle- - rhent will- be considerably.' The- stock ex Calypso 1 hard baeii put:in quarantine. ■ -v-i