LATEST TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 56, 23 October 1875, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

("PRESS AO-ENCY. [, WELLINGTON. PROROGATION SPKJOCn. Honorable Legislative Couneile. ’-.s ane Gentlemen.op the House op Peej:;. SENTATIVES, Tlie state of the public business < upOcp me to relieve-you from further- attm-.b.n - in Parliament and I- take occasion thank- you for the zeal and attention which havemarked, the discharge of you; onerous duties during- the session. Having expressed your satisfaction at the comoi-'. tion of the contract for the laying or 'i ho telegraph cable between New South Wakf. and New Zealand, you will be glad to he .assured that before the next session of This Assembly the Colony will be placed in telegraphic communication-with the Aus , tralian- Colonies and with Great Britain. The conditions of the contract for the mad service via San. Francisco, which you Imre ratified, gives promise that on this occasion the permanency and efficiency of that service will be secured. Gentlemen op the House op Representatives, I thank you for the liberality wkh which- you have gianted supplies for the current year ; they will be administered with economy and care for the attainment of the objects for which they have he voted. The Immigration and Public Worlr' Appropriation Act to which I assented on behalf of Her Majesty,, by giving d : tinctly a statement of the Immigration and Public - Works Loan Accounts, and by showing separately all the- appropriations chargeable to loans, will render easily intelligible a sibject upon- which there has been some misapprehension, and with the Public Revenues ; Act and the Stamp Duties to which I have- assented, will effect a valuable administrative improvement.

' Honorable Legislative • Councillors; and Gentlemen of the House of Kepbesentatives..Tho question relative to' the abolition of the provincial form ef governing ip_ these Islands which I intimated awthe*" opening of this Sesssion you would be inJ vited to decide, has been answered by the passing of the Abolition of the Provinces ■ Act by a large majority in both* Houses of the Assembly; and* l-bave assented tothat Act on be-half of- Her*’Majesty. It will be the duty of my Government, during the recess to'give attention to the consolidation of existing Provincial art-: lor Ordinances, arid to- prepare such gene- d laws of a .Municipal character as wdi facilitate and render urform the administrative work of the Local Governing!.odies, no%v existing or hereafter to be established, in the several Provincial Districts, so tbit the constitutional change which is appointed to take place at the close of the-

first session of tho next Parliament m a f>e accomplished with ease. The re-adjust-ment of the representation effected by the Representation Act will meet the altered circumstances of the several electoral divisions in which increase of the number of members ha's been made. I Earnestly trust that under tho blessing of Divine Providence, the mcaurcs you have authorised in this session may tend to promote the progress of this colony and the welfare of the people. AUCKLAND. Oct. 21. Father Hickey, who visitffd the colony six wears ago collecting subscriptions for chivies in Ireland, is expected _ to be Croke’s successor in the Catholic Bishopric 6f Auckland DUNEDIN. October 22. A fire took place in Moray Place last night and destroyed the Rubber Stamp ■Company’s shop and a plumber's. The fire did not spread, being hummed in on hot hj sides by brick houses The insurances were, Webb, on stock in New Zealand Company ,E7OU. The Stamp Company estimate their loss at I*6oo—Uninsured. BLUFF. Oct. 21. The Riugarooma, with the mail, left Melbourne on the 17th. Arrived at 10.30 a.m. this morning. LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. LONDON. October 12. . CzariWitch Stakcr ““Duke of Pama, 1 ; Vagrant, 2 ; Perplex, 3. October 14. Wade, British Minist ;r, telegraphs from Pekin that he has obtained the necessary guarantee. Working men ate raising' subscriptions for a S atuc to Plimsoll near the East India Docks. Cardinal Manning,- on receiving a dupatation of Maltese,- resident in London, delivered an address touching on the warlike tendency of Europe, and tho prohi kility of a sanguinary war, from which the Papacy would emerge with renewed power The statement that the Cardinal had been admitted to the Kopel Circle is contradicted. The Prince of Wales arrived at Turin en route for Alexandra. Bismarck is unwell ; he will not accompany the Emperor to Italy. At the final meeting of the Cospatrick Relief Fund a balance of £542 was distributed amongst several applicants. A scrimmage took place between Whallcy and Kenealy, the former refusing to accept to political leadership of the latter. Go\ernor Musgrave, of South Australia, is created K.C.M.CL; Weld, Governor of Tasmania, and Dr. Hector, created N.Z Companions. Complaints raised on Cu'onel Baker’s sentence ? tho question of his militaiy status was settled by the Que n signing his dismissal. The Queen sent a letter of sympathy to Miss Dickenson. Kencalv’s son has sent a challenge to Major Dickenson on account of his speech in the House of Commons on Colonel Baker’s case. Gu the suggestion of the Bpeaker, Mr Dis aeli, and the Duke of Cambridge, to whom the matter was re* furred, he treated the 'otter with contemptuous silence

Birmingham is manufacturing war material for Germany, France, and -Japan. Autumn manoeuvre in Germany is so severe as nearly to equal a small campaign. Several cases of sickness ami death o * curred.