TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4437, 9 June 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[from a special correspondent.] Auckland, Tuesday. The Daily Southern Cross concludes a leading article thus : “ If the Government means total abolition, let them say so, and prepare their Bill accordingly, and stand or fall by the result. That is true administration. People will know then where they are, and where the Government is. There will be only two regular camps, instead of two camps and a ‘ cave,’ which would absorb many of their own supporters, who from being cordial may be turned into discontents, because of the want of that directness of aim and clearness of object which are the mam powers in all great measures and all great political changes. This course has the merit of that ‘ simplicity’ which is eroneously claimed for a half-and-half measure. The time for ‘ elasticity ’ has gone by, and if the Government hope to maintain credit and secure respect and support, a firm stand ought to be taken bn total abolition. The telegram states that that is what they mean, if so let them openly and umnistakeably declare that meaning at the outset.” [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPOND’ENTS.] Tadranga, Tuesday. A melancholy suicide has occurred at Matata, that of a Native chief named Hemana, who on Sunday last deliberately shot himself. Hemana was nephew of' Te Pohikia, of Maketu, and son-in-law of the loyal chief of the Arawa Karaki Mokohuia, and was much respected. Dunedin, Tuesday. There was a very long and energetic debate in the Provincial Council last night, in re the Ocean Beach Kailway Bill, which was introduced by the Government. An amendment was proposed by Mr. MoGlashan, that the Bill be read that day six months. Many members opposed the Bill on the ground that the entire railway was a sham, and the object of its promoters was simply to increase the value of certain property in which they were interested. The opinion was pretty generally expressed that it would be to another Port Chalmers job, and that in the end the Government would have to take it over. The Bill was also opposed on the ground that it should not have been introduced by Government, but by the promoters. One of the Opposition, said it was only a waste of time to speak on the Bill ; at all, as the Colonial Government would ■ assuredly not pass it. The amendment was , carried by 14 votes to 13. i A long debate also took place on the aboli- i tion of tollgates throughout the province, but i the motion was so altered by amendments and i counter-amendments that ultimately its pro- i poser did not know it. Kinally, nothing was < left of it but* the one word “That.” This < could hardly be put to the Council, so the j next business was proceeded with. i A deputation of the Council of the XTni- . versity waited on the Superintendent this a morning in reference to the establishment of a i medical school. They pointed out the follow- 1 ing as their wishes ; —That the Dunedin Hos- t pital be utilised for the purpose of medical g education. That in order that the education n given at the Dunedin Hospital might bo a recognised in Great Britain, several alterations b necessary, which the deputation enumerated, S' should be made. The deputation concluded ti by pointing out the necessity of making the fi changes carefully but quickly, so as to enable v

the Otago University to use the hospital practice and clinical instruction for the purpose of medical education. His Honor said he would lay the whole matter before the Executive. A warm debate took place in the Council to-day, on a motion that it was not desirable for the Goldfields Secretary to reside in the town. The motion was carried by 16 to 14. During the debate Fish used the words “ Impure motion.” Being called to order, he retracted and sat down, .saying—“ It is no use speaking on a subject with so many interruptions.” The Speaker took this to himself, and called on Fish to retract. * Fish said it was unfair and unmanly to have this fixed on him, when he had not alluded to the Speaker, and that he would not be ostracised and made a martyr of. Fish then got up and marched indignantly out of the chamber. Edwards’s feat of walking 100 miles in twenty-four hours is fixed for the 28th. [Per Press Agency.] Auckland, Tuesday. Mr. J. C. Sextie, mining agent and sharebroker, died this morning, under circumstances leading to fear that he had taken strychnine. Latterly he had been in straitened circumstances. He leaves a wife and four children unprovided for. The chairman of the Auckland Steam Packet Company contradicts the statement that the company are negotiating for the purchase of the Hero. A suggestion to that effect had been made, but the company had taken no action in the matter. The steamer Lewellyn, purchased by the company, will cost, with alterations, about £13,000. Her tonnage is 298 register. Napier, Tuesday. The case of Paora and Rewi v. Sutton, at the Supreme Court, is still going on. The mate of the Mary Melville, fromXyttelton, was washed overboard on the voyage here, during the late gale, and drowned. A seaman on board had his collarbone broken and is now in the hospital. The gale is abating and the sea going down. Lyttelton, Tuesday., Robert Propheroe, late mate of the Elizabeth Curie, dropped dead on Norwich-quay on Monday night. Timabu, Tuesday. Richard Danvers Thompson, late secretary of the Timaru Artillery Volunteers, is charged with embezzling the funds of the corps. Remanded. Oamard, Tuesday. There was an attempted burglary last night. A man named Morrison entered Manning’s Hotel bedroom window, and fell over the looking-glass. The noise aroused the inmates, who secured him. Dunedin,. Tuesday. The following additional items of English news appear in the Daily Times. In the Upper House of Convocation, on the 16th April, the announcement was made by the Archbishop of Canterbury that their Lordships had decided to assemble another PanAnglican Conference in the year 1877, and that steps would be taken to obtain the attendance of the Colonial bishops. Mr. James Barclay, M.P., has given notice that he would move in the House of Commons, on the 20th of April, that it be an intimation to the Select-Committee on Loans to Foreign States to inquire into the circumstances attending the issue in Great Britain of the New Zealand loans. Mr. Hawthorne, late Rector of High-school, is very ill, and there are no hopes of his recovery entertained. In the Provincial Council, speaking to a motion re the Goldfields Department, Fish used the w-ords “ unworthy motives.” The Speaker called him to order, and Fish stated that he did not think the Speaker should dictate, and declined .to withdraw the words. When he resumed his seat, the Speaker called upon him to withdraw his reflections upon his (the Speaker’s) action in calling him to order. Fish declined to do so, and walked out of the Chamber., Thereupon Fish was named from the chair, and his conduct reported by the Speaker to the Council. When he was called in he was informed what had transpired during his absence, and called upon to explain. Fish stated he did not refer in his remarks to the Speaker, and had no explanation to make. The Speaker expressed himself satisfied, and the business proceeded. The second reading of the Peninsula and Ocean Beach Railway Bill was negatived last evening by 14 to 13.