SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1148, 19 December 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

j (FKO.M oui: OWN" COKKKSI'ONIJENTS.) 1 t DUNEDIN. I December 19. The Glutha Rifles won the Ladies' Shield Match with 358 points; South 1 District Rifles, 352 ; City Guards, 343 ; 1 Bruce, 342. The match Otago v. North " | The workmen on tiic reclamation works 3 have struck for an increase of wages to 9a . per day. s WELLINGTON. December 19. i The Legislative Council took the bit in l its mouth last night and this morning, 1 striking out the Nelson to Greymouth 3 railway, also the Picton to Hurunui and • the transinsular East to West Coast. The r Government foolishly had passed the Appropriation Acts, and were help--2 less. Late at night, Mr. Whitaker car- ? tied, on the casting vote of the Chairman, 1 the motion to report progress until 10 to- ' clay. When the House met, there was a further adjournment till 11, so that j Ministers might interview Councillors, I who were highly excited. At 11 o'clock fc Dr. Grace inveighed against the political I profligacy of the day, which must lead to i repudiation. He believed we must rei pudiate population. Two millions could • not bear the expenditure being imposed. Finally, Councillors were humored by amendments conceded, which will prac--1 tically give th>.' G>.>vcr:-.ment sufficient r work for the next three years on all lines. 1 Satiated by such glorious victory, the ' excited Councillors subsided to Bellamy's 1 to recruit.