By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 396, 14 October 1876, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.)

: , ... Diined'u. Thuisday Evening. The San Francisco ; mail was delivered iu town, this evening. The Suez mail has arrived at Adelaide. the .charge, for r ;perjiiry' by, John 1 Stamper, solicitor, against William. Wilson, solicitor, .of" commented strongly on the f act-of one pi-o-. fessiona.l gentleman bringing: an.unfounded charge against another. Wilsou." prosecutes, stamper for £2OOO damages. 'iSeaton and Stout returned from Welling-ton-to-day: """' ' - --«--..,.----. The Superintendent has forwarded the fol- : lowing communication by cable to the Secretary of State, for. the Colonies : —'*' JTrgent.' Abolition of Provinces' Act passed last session of General Assembly is being; forced into'operation, notwithstanding the strenuous opposition of people of Otago, constituting about third of population of Colony. lam advised that the said Act, founded on cap. 92, of 32 Victoria, is u'lra mr-es. . Have honor, to suggest that said Act be referred to her Majesty's Attorney-General, with view to disallowance, if void. . Deep feeling of wrong pervades Province. Provincial Executive presses,to convene Provincial Council, and assert'political rights conferred by Constitution Act." Otago Volunteer Encampment to be held at Waihola on November 9th. The Insurance Companies . contribute £4O towards the Fire Brigade's demonstration on Boxing Day. The yacht Stella, for the New Zealand Government, has arrived. Cablegrams , state that reports are current in Sydney of the abandonment of the' Pacific Service. „ The iron barque Baldwin, which left New Zealand iu baUast for Yulpuraso on April 7, has not been sioce heard of. KUMiIiAKIJ&H.... Private telegrams are daiiy/received warning miners against proceeding to JJumara. The 'Stir's' special telegraphs—"Are large arrivals daily. Township fipidly extending. Where washdi't is struck said he payable, but there are many blanks.. Water i\ices not expected in for many months, and no water at present. Moss those unprovided wifcn means leaving.* "Woi-k, other than 'mining, scarce, and-taken at (50. per cent under the usual rates. Is 'much; indiriduial distress, , many having .nomejns. Yerj little gold offering until supply water. 500 diggers arrived this week, but great numoeis ieaving."

PARLIAMENTARY. The principal business before Parliament this week lias been the financial debate. After considerable nei'sonal discusaion at the evening sitting, when resolutions moved by Sharp about, to be put, Grev moved an amendment to the effect that the House ought to be informed what Ministerial changes were to be made during session, specifying particular persons to be cuanged, and the offices they were to fill. The Premier if lie wa9 able to give the information required before House prorogued he would db'soj but if otherwise he hoped the House would place th.it confidence in him which it had already reposed. Amendment lost by 34 to 17. _ Sharp',s. resolutions were th.en put and; carried. * "The resolutions are to . the effect that all unproductive expenditure should be kept within ordinary income; that the Civil Service requires reorganising ; and that, as the House felt some difficulty ia dealiug with the present Estimates, they felt that organisation could best be eflected by the Government daring the recess, and the House would pledge itself to support the Government in carrying out these resolutions. The Premier considered it only reasonable that the Government should assent to. the resolutions as they were in the same direction as the wishes of the G-overnment, besides greatly strengthening their hands. During the recess the Government would do all they possibly could, not only in regard to the cost of their departmental machinery, but in every other direction. Grey thought that under the resolutions a political design lay hid. They meaut nothing but tv> intercept the resolution ho had given notice of. He moved—" Thai the fi-

nancial position of the Colony requires the utmost economy in the administration of public business, and to effect this large reductions should, be made in the Estimates without delay." The Government could make reductions at once if they chose.