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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 392, 15 September 1876, Page 3

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(From, our own correspondent.) <> __ Dmiertin, Thursday Evening. j The Town Council of Fuverton have disapproved of Macftjulrew'a resolutions, or any form of Go< erimierit that would resuscitate l/rovincialisin. .'oborts dur.ig the vreei: h?.s been giving some splendid exhibitions of skill at billiards. Oji Tuesday be gave Mansen, of invercargili, 600 out of :0l)0, .v.A beat him by 94. Yesterday afternoon he-gave Mansen 300 oi;t ! of 600. Ma'nseu ouly scored 92 when the champion was game. Last night there was j the fi.tesi, exhibition ever seen in the Colony.Koberts gave Weston, champiou of Austra--11 , 500 in ICOO. After a splendid contest J.loberis won by 54.- They meet on the same terms tonight.- Se/eral mvche-have been" arranged— Nesbitl plays .Mansen for £IOO- - Mfestou gives Mansen 300 iu 1000.- ■ The L'.ynod yesterday afiirnicd Iho desirability of Clmrcb union with the North Island, but, a minority protesting, h was eventu illy -resolved not to proceed with union at • present. WBLIiIKr-TOK, IlaughtoQ was brought up this morning, the ,Co;irt bein^.held xr&h closeu doors. He was committed lor ".trial; No bail was asked for. '. CABLEGRAMS, The racehorses Ncinrsis, Eros. Robin Hood, Sylvia colt, Sovereign, Toiie du Mati, and ethers on board the Ci/y of Melbourne, from Sydney to Melbourne, wore, killed during a severe gale •" The steamer Dotidauoiig from Sydney to Melbourne was totdly lost off J crvis Bay. Twenty-eight pas.viigers and crow arrived at Newcastle, iu a barque. Latir telegrams state that., 'evc'rti.ceu persons were droned in going from.* he DandenoDg to the Alfred William. At nine o'clock on Monday nighl the lights of the Dandenong we:e seen ;-o dit.&'pp?Br, and she is supposed to have foumiered with forty - persons on uoartj. ... - - .©. . PARLIAM!;y £\\RY. ; : Wellington, September 13,11.5 a.m. Ypgel has resigned his s-iat for WanganuL New writ issued. -The Government have been twice Ihwarted in taeir al.empt to force through an Indemnity Bill.. The Disqualification Co; imiiteerepori en inthe Lower House yesterday that ihk DisqualificationAct had been infringed i>y Ministers. The House adjourned last night to allow Minis T ters time to consider the position. The Government meet their supporters this morning. Ballance, in moving the adjournment of ihe debate on the Indemnity" Bill, suggested the superfluous number of Ministers should resign. Stout suggested, with ridiculous gravity, that,-as seven Ministers and two Maori half-castes were allowed, George M'Loftnand John Hnll should bo declared by I >.et to be half-castes within the meaning of ; the Act! Waierhouse,moves to-day that Hall's ieat be declared vacant, . . j • . 3.5 p.m. j .Atkiisou has just announced the resignation of all ihe Aiinisi ry erecpt 'himself—the j Government to "ne reconstructed according to law, Richardson ?,ud. Hall being probably I left out. Tho House adjourned till 7.30 tonight. >: .•;,..■ .;.:■..- Vogel has accepted the A gent-Generalship. The Hon. W. Fo:: will probably succeed him for Wanganui. , On Tuesday writs were served on Ministers, for illegally sitting, by Grey, through Pees—.gainst Donald M'Lean a writ For £12,000; against Pollen for iC17,000. The new Mini-.ters'have been sued, under section 12, Disqualification Act, foi £IOO per day, in all £6OO. Eight days have been allowed for pleading. The declaration against'Whitakcr has four counts—that he has. sac iu the Ho.'.se while interested .i.. Lhe I'iako Swamp .con-.ract, has been concerned in the contract while sitting, has sat while Attorney-Gene-ral, and he has sat while holding office with eight others.- £SOOO is claimed. A writ has also been issued against Vogel for £4OOO, because he was interested in a contract with the .Executive to go Home for certain purposes, from wlnVk he would derive emolument at the time that he held a seat in the Legislature .• At the meeting of the Government supporters' yesterday it wa3 agreed thp.t Ministers should resign, exyept the Premier, who. agreed to the reconstruction of a Ministry of seven only. Fifty-one members pledged themselves to support the Government on a geueral policy. The.iiew Ministry are—Pollen, Colonial Secrei-ar/;. HiJiardsou, Works; Bowen, Justice; |j. -M'L"an, Customs; dir D. "M'Lean, j- r ative; w'idtaker, PostmasterGeneral; 'Major Atkinson, 'Premier and Lands. The Premier wouid, on the followr ing. day move' for leave to introduce a Bill of Indemnity to condone past mistakes Grey contended that the mere taking of one oath, and divesting onese'f of another, did not constitute them a M inistry. The Speaker declined to interfere. It >3 said i-hat a majority of the Opposition decline to follow Grey fmthe>' iu opposing,the Indemnity Bi!J. Wbitake. becomes Attorney-General should the present Act be repealed. (. : &eing made wit!- the orders of the day, and the session should close about three weeks. Montgomery carried the second reading of his bill, providing that members of the House should not be allowed to become billet-hunlers. Member.-, of the G-o« eminent voted both sides.