OTAGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 175, 7 June 1862, Page 5

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

FRIDAY, Om JUNE, 1562.

The Speaker took the chnir at twenty-five minutes after four, and read the usual form of prayer. MINUTES. The Clerk of the Council read the minutes of yaftevilay's proceedings, which were confirmed. ACCOMMODATION FOR THE CLERK. The SPEAKER read the following letter to the House ; the same having been placed in his hands during the day : — " To the Speaker of the Provincial Council. "Slit, —I Lave the honor to represent to you the erious inconvenience and risk, which results from their being no "room or office appropriated to my use as Clerk of Council, and for the safe custody of the Council books, papers, &c. " In illustration of the inconvenience, I have to state that in preparing the proceedings of the Council for the press, I need constantly to refer to books and documents, which are ist present in three different places, and which can selilombe come at but with difficulty, and to which places I have no recognised right of access. As regards the "risk," I have to represent tliat having never as yet received possession of the books and papers belonging to the Council, I cannot be held responsible for their safe custody: and the fact of their bein^ so scattered, as represented above, renders it more possible that some may be lost or mislaid. " I have the honor to be, sir, " Your obedient servant, (Signed) '•' Charles Smith, " Clerk or Council. "Dunedin, June 6tli, 1802." Mr. DICK moved the suspension of standing order No. 26, to enable him to introduce a motion on the subject of the correspondence just read. Mr. WALKEH seconded the motion.

Question put and carried. Mr. DICK now moved that the letter just ren<'. be j referred to his Honor, the Superintendent, and if he considered it advisable that the office in question should be obtained, the Council would indemnify the local Government for any expenditure contracted on that account. (Hear, hear, from Mr. Walker.) The hon. member remarked that be considered the cxi- | gencies of the case justified such a course of action. Mr. WALKER, seconded the motion. Question put and carried. BCILDIKG ORDINANCE, 1562. 1 Mr. M'GL ASEAN proposed some emendations in •lauses $<o. li and No. 2t). The lion, member expressed .in opinion that it wan unnecessary to go into committee for the purpose of effecting the proposed ] amendment.* in the clauses indicated. The amendments in question having been adopted, the Bill was lead ii thin.time, and passed. AIUOVRNMEXT OF THE HOUSE. Mr. DICK now rose, and said lie was sorry to have to propose njinin the adjournment of this Council, on account it" ihe causes which induced it; but the country hs..i lost by death an efficient officer connected ■with tile lior.re, and there was great cause to deplore his daceaso, because since that officer had occupied the high and responsible position of Auditor, he had fulfilled the onerous duties of his important office in a realous rind commendable manner. The lion, member conceived it was expedient for the House to adjourn for a short time, in order to meet n.uain for the~ appointment of un Auditor, and he would therefore propose " That tlie Council adjourn to Wednesday, the 18Ui Jime, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when hon. members would lie asked to proceed to the nomination of a competent and suitable party to succeed to the vacant office." By the provisions of an enactment passed in the year 1801, this Council was invested with the es?pfitial authority to appoint nn Auditor. Mr. PATKRSON seconded the motion for adjournment, which was accordingly put and carried. The House rose at a quarter to 5 o'clock.

A Miserable Death.—On Friday, at Ballarat, Dr. Cleiuliuiiiug hold an inquest on the lioriy of Catherine Dowlij!£, who, according to the evidence and the verdict tf tlie jury, died on the previous riny in her own tent, off Mair-street, her death being caused by pulmonary consumption, aggravated by exposure, want, and neulect on tlio part of her husband, John Dowling. This man, in his evidence, stated that the deceased, who hud been ailing for a long time, was 28 years of age. He had been to Melbourne for a fortnight, find on his return on Tuesday or Wednesday, found his wife lying very ill in his shanty. Witness left the pb.ee, and on his return, at sundown on Thursday, found his wife dying. Witness was uot sober, and could uot say Low long his wife lived nfter that. He subsequently funnel his wife was dead, gave information to the police, was taken in charge by them, and liberated in the morning. David Donneil, sodawater manufacturer, deposed that he had known the deceased and her husband for the Inst five years, and now resided near them. .At 7 o'clock on Thursday evening Dowling was quite drunk, and asked witness to take hiia to his tent. As they came near it, Dowling eiicil out, "Are you alive, Kate I'1 She faintly answered, " Yes, John." Witness and Dowiing then went iiito the tent, but Dowliug was staggering to that iie could not pet a light. Witness then got a li^lit, and found the ckeensed in her bed, partly uncovered, Mid evidently in a dying condition. Medical attendance was then sought for, Lut i.otprocured. Some slight comforts, in the way of tea, &c, were administered, but at 9, v.hen witness returned to the tent, lie found the woman ciestl, a caudle burning beside her, but. no one near. The deceased had been of very intemperate and depraved habits.— Ballarat Star, May 2-1. A Gam-ant Horseman.—There was a beautiful instance of fine horsemanship displayed at a late review lidd at Vienna, upon the occasion of tlie i fiftieth anniversary of thu establishment of the I military order of tlie Maria Theresa, when some j thirty thousand cavalry -were in a line. A little \ child in the front row of the spectators, becoming fi-iglitenorl, uislted forward just as a squadron tif | LußSars w* re charging full tilt— fiwcopiug down with maddening velocity, i.ay, r.lrnost on the child. Tenor paralysed alike the'spectators and the mother of the ! child, while the lovely and amiable Empress almost fainted with horror, for the child's destruction Beenu-d inevitable. The little one was almost under the horse's ft-t-t—(mother in&tant would liave sealed it« doom- wit en a hussar, without keseuinf; his speed or loosening his hold, threw liiisaclf along his horse's neck, Jiud seizing the cliild, pluccd it in safety in iiont of his saddle, witfiout f-o much as changing the jiace .or breaking the alignment in the least. A hundred thousand voices hailed with pride aud joy the deed, while two veices could but tob their gratitude; the one a mother's, the other that of ber sympathising and beloved Empre.'.e. A proud moment that must have Wen for the hussar ■when Ins Enjperor, taking the enrmelki! crbss oi merit, attached it to his breast - a proud moir.eut alike for the sovereign and the man.— " The Cavahut," in Ilarv.er's New Monthly Magazine. if