SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

(From our own correspondent.) [The following apptared in our issue of Saturday last:—J - , • : " . Dunedin,Friday, 8 p.m. - Robert Roberts, horsedealer and coal meKchant 1 ; committed suicide to-day. " ~ Last night the most terrific hurricane rarjedithat has been experienced in Dunedin for many years. Several houses were partly unroofed, and fences destroyed., ,

P ARLI Aif E Ta RY. In the Assembly last night Grey moved his resolution in long speech. -His main arguments, were, that the <Government propo sals were not acceptable to the people- "that they were-to force upon , the- country petty institutions without having given fair warning , that nothing could be fairer than his proposals—that each island should manage its own affairs ; that nothing is more likely to credit of the Colony, and that the people of the Colony ought to decide as to the-exact form of Government they would have.. He said,that the .finances of the Colony were 'in a most disastrous condition. The Native Department was corrupt, and that the natives generally were dissatisfied with M'Lean. He strongly objected to civil servants.being in the Government, as in Pollen's aud referred to Voxel's expenditure while at Home as extrav;-gnit. In conclusion, he denied that his resolutions would affect the unity of the Colony. The struggle was one of civilisation, culture, and. happiness, against wealth ami degeneration. Personally he did not want office, he would be satisfied to secure for the people the priceless boon of freed-on . _The Premier elir.rac.eriaed Grey's speech ns wild, visionary, anil unworthy of answer. The resolutions-were crude? -sirid 1111-nreiligibiepn.nd an inter] r -ta ioa was -necess.'.ry, it nol furnished by the mover. He was ardent, in defenee'of the civil servants/und ifriinr-'iincd that PrlJen had been n. viduable public officer to the Colony.. He declined to discuss- ti.-e l-eierehce to his,expendit iire while at . jEiom?, Sir;Crep.-ge,<?rey Had*a" very ignoble idea of the piihjte u;en of the* Coiohy.in thinking,that money was their chief mo!ive.' Reynolds announcetl that jle would vot.o for the measures, but.his f-ymrathies were.entirely with tha gentlemen on the G.'ver;.ment benches. Tribe is strongly opposed to the.resolutions. The debate was. adjourned, on the motion of Rees, about lam.