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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Auckland, Friday. There has been a heavy gale all day, the barometer falling from 30'4 at midday to 2975 how.- No damage has been done as yet. ' New Plymouth, .Friday. ’ The body of King, drowned in the Maugaehu River, by the upsetting of a ’canoe, has been recovered. It could not be brought ’in, and was buried in the bush, the place being fenced in. Numbers of men on the Inglewood railway have been discharged, because of there being no rails to complete the last mile.: There are great complaints at the work being stopped, when it is all but completed. - - Dunedin, Friday. Yesterday’s escort . brought down 8302 ounces of gold. The police escort service, which has continued since 1861, will cease in future. If - 1 • , . Balolutha, Friday. Mrs. Cheeseman, wife of James Cheeseman, laborer, at the railway terminus, died suddenly at one o’clock this morning. Cheeseman, who had been drinking heavily since Monday last, and who was the worse for drink at the time, went to Balclutha at half-past one for Dr. Smith, and told him his wife was dead. The doctor and Sergeant Dacey went to the house,

and found the woman dead. The husband was arrested on suspicion, and an inquest will be held to-morrow. Mrs. Cheeseman leaves eight of a family. The oldest is ten years ; the youngest five months. " Christchurch, Friday. W. S. Moorhouse, M.H.R. for Christchurch, addressed his constituents last night. There. was a moderate attendance, the Mayor in the chair. He avowed himself a partizan, and said he selected his party before entering the House. He was prepared to sacrifice his individual views to the ruling of the majority of that party until he found them radically wrong oh broad principles, when be would go over to the other side. He strongly .condemned the ceaseless chattering of some members last session, and said he hoped the present session would be free from it. He said most of the commercial success and present advantages of the colony was due to the work of the party ;he had supported in the Assembly. He proceeded to quote figures to demonstrate how New Zealand had progressed while that party had been in power. He showed that the population had increased since 1867 from 237,249 to 399,075, and that in the value of property : we had increased as much in proportion during seven. years as Europe had in fourteen years. Referring to the public dissatisfaction on the railways and other matters of administration, he said it was impossible that such political 1 revolutions in the constitution as the colony had recently undergone could be recovered from at once. ; It would take time to get into [smooth working order. The Ministry had worked most indefatigably, and were so overdone that they were scarcely fit physically to face the trial of meeting the opposing element .in the Assembly. The constitution was now rough, and would require two or three years legislation to get it into proper order. Bat he was sure before long to be able to congratulate them on having a much larger share of local self government than was ever likely under the old system. He had no doubt the railway grievance would be the subject of spe : cial inquiry during the session, wben the matter would generally b s put right. It was desirable to have a universal rule for the management cf.all railways in the colony ; but on the other hand, iron rules were apt to become oppressive. Speaking of the railway finances, he :said he knew the results of the working of the railways during the past year were very considerably in excess of any estimates made by the Government or the Opposition. He had [good means of knowing the general financial position of • the colony, and firmly believed the resources of the colony will be quite equal to every call which the public creditor might make on it. • He did not contemplate that the colony would be vexed by any more taxation unless some extraordinary social catastrophe should occur. He said it advisedly and believed that New Zealand would yet be the leading community of the southern seas. The railways were going to pay off the national debt. He quoted bank statistics, including Savings Banks, to show the wealthy and prosperous condition of the community as a whole, and also the land returns, to show what a vast increase had taken place in the land sales. Speaking of the North Island, he said there was a great future of prosperity before it, and from a Southern point of view he strongly deprecated the severance of the two islands. He expressed himself in favor of free, secular,, and compulsory education, which he believed could be paid for out of the Consolidated Revenue. Charitable institutions should be a charge on the Consolidated Revenue. He quite agreed that Christchurch was entitled to a large endowment in land as compensation for the town reserves taken by the Provincial Government some years ago. He was opposed to Government endowing other schools than their own, and would not support the deferred-payment system for land. A vote of thanks was carried. There were only three dissentients, and a vote of no coufideuoe'Was proposed but not seconded. PRESENTATION to Mr. MACANDREW. . Dunedin, Friday. Mr. Macandrew was last night presented with a purse o£ ISOOsovs. at a public meeting, held in the Princess Theatre. Five hundred people were present, including all the leading citizens. Mr, Beeves, the Mayor, presided. In making the presentation, the latter said more subscription lists were yet to come in, which would increase the amount considerably. Ho made a long speech, promising that as it had been decided that politics were to be kept out of the affair altogether, he should not allude to them. He reviewed the life of Mr, Macandrew since he first settled here, and said he had gained the esteem of all his fellow citizens. The Superintendents of Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch had received presentations, but this was the most valuable of ail. He said Mr. Macandrew had been identified with the history of the colony for twenty-five years, and always assisted its progress. : The Public Works and Immigration scheme originated in his fertile brain, and most of the public institutions in Otago were mooted by him. He had always been actuated by the highest motives, and his . name would be handed down to posterity as a house • hold word in the history of Otago. Mr. Macandrew, in replying, expressed his thanks for the great honor done by his fellow citizens. He said the testimonial was not of his seeking, but rather the reverse. Still, he was proud indeed to receive it, not for its Intrinsic worth, though a small fortune in itself—but as a token of appreciation of his public services which pervaded the minds of the community. He believed a greater honor had not been conferred on any otiier man in New Zealand, and hoped ho would prove worthy of it, and shape his conduct in the future so as not to belie the action of those who presented him with this testimonial. It was now thirty years since he first had the honor to take part in the affairs of the Otago Association, under whose auspices this settlement was first formed; and twenty-six years since he showed his confidence in its future by casting in his lot with the pioneers of its early settlement. Since then he had devoted himself to public life and work. Ho had’seen that young sapling which-he had a hand in planting grow up into a stately oak, under whose branches many families had and would emerge from comparative poverty into affluence, independence, and wealth. He might be pardoned in saying the Mayor was right in saying no one had taken a more active part than ho had in the early days, and it would have been better for him If. he had attended less to public affairs and more to his own. He would then have been richer. However it was not to be, and he consoled himself with saying, “Whatever is, is best.” He commented on Parliamentary duties in the early days, taking people from their business for a long time, and once taking six weeks to go to Auckland, and generally they found the shortest way .back, was via Sydney and Melbourne. Nothing was more gratifying to public-spirited men than the consciousness that they had endeavored to do their duty, and had left some footprints on the sands of time, and acquired the good opinion of their follow citizens. He had experienced the feeling often, and never more than now, that he had been guilty of sins of omission and commission. He would not deny it. But who had not t But ho had never made use of a high official position for nepotism or the gratification of avarice. Ho had not a single relation or connection in the public service of the colony. Ho had retired from tho chief magistracy of the province considerably poorer than when he entered it, and that was poor enough. It was hard to address an audience at length without going, into politics. Ho. along with the province of Otago, had been snuffed out, and would not have the same power now to serve the province that he formerly had. He had tho satisfaction of knowing that lie had not been snuffed out by tho desire of the people of tho province—a largo majority being against it. He was not going to the House as one of their representatives with less heart and loss, hope than ever ho had gone there, He was no prophet of .evil; but he could not help feeling that we have fallen upon evil times, and Otago’s progression would not be as great in the future as it ought to be, Ho hoped ho was mistaken, and would earnestly assist to aid and devise measures for developing tho resources of this great province of Otago.. He did not want anything at the oxpense of the rest of tho colony; still lie did not wish it to be the milch cow of the colony. He merely wished a fair field and no favor It only permitted, the whole of the province could be intersected witli railways without any external aid whatever. Ho hoped the different communities would abandon their wretched narrow-minded jealousy, and substitute an honorable rivalry, and that pnhlicspirit through the rising generation would bo diffused, instead of allowing political indifference, whose bitter fruits they had not yet all tasted. He,hoped all would realise what was due to their adopted country from themselves and their children, and that tho watchword of Otago should be as in the patjt, the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Ho thanked them again for the honor they had conferred on him ; but he could not find language adequately to express ids feelings. Mr. Macandrew was repeatedly interrupted by ohehrs and enthusiasm, which at tho conclusion was something tremendous An adjournment was then Immediately made to tho banquet, which is now going on.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5094, 21 July 1877, Page 2

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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5094, 21 July 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5094, 21 July 1877, Page 2

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