LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 96, 11 March 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Pint Puicss Aokxcv.] DUX ED IN. March G. The following is a published text of a petition m course of signature in the southern portion of the province : 1. That, as proved by (he result of recent elections there exisls in the province of Otago a strong belief (hat abolition proposals of the present Colonial Government were premature, ill-advised, and likely (« be prejudicial, if given effect to. 2. 'T hat your memorialists consider the sub-section 2 of clause 22 of Abolition Act prohibiting the assembling of (be Provincial Councils, arbitrary, unconstitutional, and amounting to a virtual disfranchisement of Provincial constituencies. ?>. That your memoralists believe that in the present circumstances of the conn try, a mooting of the Provincial Council, (which might take the shape of a convention), is absolutely necessary, there being many matters of pressing importance requiring consideration, pending- the ratification or repeal, as the case may be, of the Abolition Act. Your memorialists would, therefore, respectfully request your Honor to convene a public meeting of (lie members of the Provincial Council at the usual time. They do so, feeling assured tiiat trade, settlement, and the interests of the public iu general will otherwise suffer. AUCKLAND March 9. A. singular case of bigamy was beard in the police court to-day. William Nelly wasebarged with marrying Emily Corrigan, former’s wife being alive. The defence was that bis first wife, Matilda-Tones, bad a husband living when the marriage was performed at Taranaki, which would therefore be invalid. The husband, it is stated, is believed to be at Patea ; bis name is Andrew Gmtorman. The case stands adjourned, to ascertain the truth of this statement. A death from typhoid fever is reported. The Board of Health threatens proceedings on account of its concealment. CHRISTCHURCH. March 9. Three more railway officials have been dismissed in consequence of what transpired during the recent, enquiry. At the conclusion of the performance last night Sir Craci'oft Wilson presented Miss Colville with a tea and coffee service and one hundred guineas on behalf of the subscribers. PORT CHALMERS. March 9. A case of typhoid fever has broken out on the quarantine island. The sufferer is a girl aged IG, a daughtci of the keeper. She caught the, infection while assisting her father to cleanse the hospital, which had been vac ited five days by the Coronet’s immigrants. IK)El ITKA March 9. An assay has been received from the University of Melbourne of live boxes of silver and load ore, foil nil on Mount Rangi(oto. thirty miles tmm here. The, assay is as follew -.Vo 1 give 21 p-r cent lead, with Tflfi mi a-'-s troy of silver to a ton. No. 2. gave fil per cent. lead, an 1 o(J2 omiecs silw., p ■)• j on. No. 15 Id percent, lead. Great ■ •>. -hem -u! iu t»iwn over tli - discovery. Ui; * pr-np -elors state that tbev pm in a drive -to Kc', and b -d not gel through the ven. Too Land 0 ice ins b-ell rush -d with applieat ions P.r leas- s adjoining the prosoeefo s. Six thousand acres ha vc be -n app ied for in separate blocks of 15U0 and 4 K) acres.