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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 387, 11 August 1876, Page 3

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.*>: . . -, O JL " . (From our own correspotnlen'.) ' » :■ . , .... Duriedin, Thursday JEvening. James Dickenson has been commiEfced for .trial for perjury. Edward Donhelly'has been arrested for a series of burglaries. A deputation waited to-day upon the De-puty-Superintendent asking tl at the toUs be removed to a reasonable,.distance-beyond the pity boundaries, in conformity with a resolution passed last session in the Provincial Council. TurnimU replied tliat ho had always been in fti»or pt\ ab dishing tolls altogether, and promised to bring the ■ matter before tbe : Executive, and see what could be done. The General Government have received advices that the whole of the million an I quarter 8 per cent, debentures have been taken up and £BOO,OOO has been paid into the bank. At Grahams l own, a conference of loc 1 bodies ha 3 been held, the Borough Council and the Waitohi District Board being represented, to discuss Grey's Reparation resolutions. . A resolution was carried almost.-una'i •nimously affirming the desirabiiity'of pr'eser,ving the unity of Lhe .Colony, and the division of the Colony into counties and municipalities for purposes of 10-tal self government, to be subsidised from .Consolidated, revenue, ; and that such local Government- should have full control o'.'er its own affairs and revenue. ; , A petition for ithe release off W. P. Town : sheadj-who was committed to prison at the session 'of«_the Canterbury Supreme Court;for manslaughter in a midwifery case, has been signed by 500 people. - . -The' Canterbury Acclimatisation Society means for hatching. A cablegram, of June 27, states- that 'the Intercolonial Rifle match at Wimbledon, England was first, Scotland second, Victoria third, and Canada last. . ' - ' -The Melbourne, telegrams state that the financial Statement, the budget aiid speech, with the expulsion of M 'Kean, have- occupied the principal time of the Assembly duringjlast week. The Treasurer, in his Statement,, was enabled to show a. surplus at the end of last year of £- : >200, instead of an anticipateil deficit of £ISO,OOO.- This was brought about by the excess of revenue received over the estimate, and savings from unexpended votes. L/ '■ P ARLIA MEN TARY. : The.Separation debate will probably, con--1 elude'on Friday night. : On resuming the debate on. Tuesday But- !■ toil said that the mover of the resolutions ought not to have treated them - as party'resolutions. -If he thought they'founds favor : with the people; "-he .would ads'peate the necessity a plebiscite." He .defended the ; Government, and- warned those who occu-pied-prpmiuent'-ppsitioiis in the House that they should be-' careful ; how 'thuy. brought charges of corruption agaiust. the; Government! : They 'were .brought so constantly without reason members .'treated them, 'with indifference-, and ."he therefore feared that some day, -when something very wrohf was charged against the Government, the people would not-listen to it."- They ought to do all they could to preserve unity and brotherly feeling between the population of both islands. ..Hislop.strongly supported the.resplutions, but was opposed'to' Insular Separation. He reminded the Premier that in 1870 he advised the people of Dunedin to support the Public Works Scheme, as, being calculated to bring about Financial.Separation; and the Commissioner of Customs that,,before taking office, he was ltnown as an "advocate of Separation,'and called upon th'eih'to explain "what ha'd caiisecl them'to alter their views. :i ' AVoolcock failed to see the economical character of these resolutions, or any better form of-local Government, or that the work of the country could be-better done by three Governments than by one. If by them he could see any prospect of the expenditure being reduced, more rapid settlement of the country, • and more rapid development of the country's resources effected, he would support them ; but at present they went in a contrary direction. Hodgkinson supported- the resolutions, claiming for the proposals that they provided a good on which to erect a superstructure that would be secure, better, and more economical. , '. Bryce said that if the expenditure had been excessive the blame lay with the House for putting such pressure on the Government. he present Itinistiy were as well fitted to: sit oil the ben,clies as any ixfe'ri in the House. l Whitaker explained at length the nature of the proposed scheme. ' The boh: gehtle- i man'said that, with all their' experience of' Provincialism,' fno. system, of- • • government; worked sp well as when the Colony was go- • verned..'as. tw6 islands,'* 1 with'. the. GovernorGeneral at'Auckiahdi' ' Tender the present; proposals they. would ""have a parliament in each island,'sitting Six or eight weeks yearly, ■ with a»Federal-Parliament, meeting.at Wellington once every four or five years, to deal ; with .customs, lighthouses, &c" -This would l ibring-better and more economic legislation. .He sawjno reason. for disunion j and said .that : the ~publiu' creditor would be secured better ' than,ever. , t Boweu S'ud thiit J ?eparaf.i6n ' coloniill progpcssV and %v>is not wished foi\ex: cept -by Auckland and who quarrelled ever the laiitl fund'. He showed that, the s - stem of Gov,ernmeht ; sketched ;by Whit 'ker hud'not worked - well, aiid that the' divisions of country were intolerable. The country I was in a chronic state of, dissatisfaction, ai.d ' even the Governor and his lieutenants did not agree. On resuming yeslerday, Reader Wood claimed i.h'*t Auckland a-id ; >tago constitut ed 1-he half oi the . Colony, and were for se ara tion as one man. He asked that these places be allowed to .form their own Government. " .^afford 1 pointed out that the veiy greatest ,dissatipfa!e!tion ' prevailed J kgaikst the ruling •'form ;qf Go'verhmen,t Tvheh 'the Colony wis g'6toVi|fed,py tjVcj p'ov-iuc-'s',, and't-liat to 'fhime "a Cbns*tituJtioti the yery opposite to tiiat pr-jposedi and ; said ;if tack t;l)efir cons'-iiiviehts tprmVrj'o.w oiie ot'them would" be . re: j d thiit" tl»e, laid fund should be coiuinon pr<>pVity_. , ; Rolleston could not. support resolutions, because they .really meuut Insu'ur Separation. He declared lor a modified Provincialism, with non pjlilicai Superintendents... Joyce declared for Provinfiialism of the bluest type. If he could get the Provinces as lliey were he would vote for making the laud "'und common properly.