TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4188, 22 August 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Press Telegraph Agency.] Grahamstown, Friday. The Star’s correspondent at Whakatiwai states that at the korero during the last few days nearly all the principal chiefs spoke. They wanted Government advances placed on Cape Colville and other blocks of land. - They denied having received money from Ohinemuri and Aroha land. Mr. Mackay mentioned the names of several leading chiefs who had received advances. Tehira denied. Mr. Mackay showed that he had received money and goods through his relatives, and told the old chief he could keep his own pieces of land at Ohinemuri and Te Aroha, but could no longer hold tribal lands. The division on the Government resolutions has given universal satisfaction, A meeting will still be held to pass resolutions to strengthen the hands of the Ministry. Napier, Friday. Great complaints are made here regarding the inefficiency of the steam service between Napier and Wellington, as goods from Melbourne and other places remain so long in Wellington. . The result of the division on the resolutions regarding North Island Provinces is received with general satisfaction. Nelson, Friday. In the Supreme Court the trial of Newman Bousley, for the murder of his wife, and of William Millyard, as an accessory after the fact, has excited a great interest, the hall being crowded both days. At the close of the case for the prosecution, the Judge recommended Millyard to be discharged. The jury, after an hour’s deliberation, found Bousley guilty of manslaughter. Ho was sentenced to fifteen years. ' Grexmocth, Friday. An enthusiastic public meeting was held last night in favor of the abolition of Provinces. Resolutions were unanimously passed praying the Premier to extend the proposed reform to the Middle Island. Tijiaru, Friday. The South Canterbury Times, in an article supporting the proposed abolition of the Provinces in the North Island, advocates the establishment of Boards of Works similar to that of Timaru and Gladstone, but with extended powers. Auckland, Friday. A thousand persons were present at last night’s meeting. It was the most influential, unanimous, and enthusiastic meeting held in Auckland for years. The announcement of the passing of Mr. Vogel’s resolutions in Wellington was read while Mr. Firth was moving the first resolution, and was received with hisses. It was determined to proceed with the business as intended. Mr. Firth made an excellent speech, followed by Mr. Bees, who hoped the people would be in a state of semirevolution until justice was accorded. This was received with enthusiastic cheering. He suggested the formation of a Reform Association, with the object of forming committees throughout the Colony to agitate by addresses, pamphlets, and influence at elections, the main object being to abolish all the Provinces, and make the land revenue Colonial revenue. Mr. Alexander Black said if the Colonial creditor had nothing more than the customs revenue as security for the debt, it was a poor security, and might soon be taken away. Captain Daldy followed in a good speech, and told the history of the resolutions of 1856—how they were carried by a majority of one vote. He instituted a comparison between Auckland and Southern Provinces, and denounced as an insult to this part of the Colony the offer of £25,000 by Mr. Vogel, while the Province was contributing a quarter of a million customs revenue, and Canterbury had a surplus of half a million which it could not expend. Mr.

McMillan, of McArthur, Shera, and Co., supported the suggestion for the formation of an association, and said that they should not only give personal support, but put down money to send to Parliament any able men unable to afford it themselves. (Great cheering.) When the resolutions of 1556 were passed, the total revenue of the Colony was £10,300, out of which Auckland contributed £SIOO. Mr, Barton Treland, of Treland Bros., and others spoke. The following resolutions were carried amid, enthusiastic cheering:—“That in the opinion of this meeting, the pi’oposals embodied in Mr, Vogel’s resolutions for abolishing the North Island Provinces, are unjust and impolitic.” “That in the opinion of this meeting the time has arrived wheh, for the good government and credit of the Colony, the Provincial system should be abolished, and the land revenue become Colonial revenue.” “ That the resolutions be forwarded to the Auckland members, with a request that they support these views.” Mr. Rees, in proposing a vote of thanks to the Mayor, said he was requested to remind the public of New Zealand, through the Press, that the Middle Island was purchased from the Natives with public money, except Nelson, in the form of a grant from the Home Government for the benefit of the people of New Zealand. Mr. R. Lusk said, while recently in Otago, he met a gentleman, formerly an Auckland settler, who said many years ago he was one who took part in an agitation to prevent taxation raised in Auckland being sent away to buy land in Canterbury and Otago.