INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 155, 30 June 1880, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

:^^ x j. • - ') Mblbouenb, Tuesday. Arrived— P. ; and, ;o. Company's steamer Assam f|om, Galle with the inward Suez mail wfcicli leffc;Lpndo.n on May 24. Parliament has been dissolved and the new elections will be held on the 14th July, j; Ned Eelly has reached Melbourne and is

progressing- favorably, flesh wounds only being found 'which are not likely to prove fatal. j ' . One of the children belonging to Jones the hotel keeper at Glenrowan where the affray took place is dead. - Sailed— Union Company's steamer Tararua for the Bluff. . A caucus of the Liberals was held yesterday, when a manifesto was adopted, and has to-day been issued by Mr Berry. Ifc recommends an extension of the fra ichiseorthe Council by enlarging the ratepayer^' roll, and further tbat members of the Council should be elected for six years, one-third retiring every two years, and that the total number of electorates should be thirty, each returning one member. The official correspondence between the Governor and Mr Service is published. It shows that the former unhesitatingly granted the dissolution, as he considers that the settlement of tbe question of the reform of the Constitution is absolutely necessary. Wednesday. At a meeting of Ministerialists held yesterday it was resolved to maintain Mr Service's reform scheme in its entirely, and to contest every seat in the forthcoming elections. Sydney, Wednesday. In the Legislative Assembly last night the new wool and stock taxes were carried by a large majority. The onlj gold medal for watches afc the Exhibition .has been awarded to the Waltham Watch Company.