TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 308, 18 September 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from oub own'correspondent.) WELLINGTON. *’ -A September 15. The House met yesterday afternoon. Debtor Creditors Bill, and Stamp Duties Act, Amendment Bill, were read a second time.

The Electric Telegraph Bill was committed and passed, on the motion of the Native Minister. 'J_ (J .J. ? ; Ministers and the Chiefs of the Opposition had a long aud final interview last night, when ■'jt’.was formfflly agreed that the Abolition Bill sfamldtoe passed this session, but should not come into force till the day after the last day of the next session of Parliament. September 171The exact position of the Abolition Bill is this :—Government undertakes that the Bill shall not come into force.uiitil after the prorogation of the first session of the new Parliament. The Opposition have agreed to tJtgjneasmcjm its meritej.'affil wffiffier io factious or extraordinary oppotf'ittiffi'. TlieUpposTfidn, however, are not obliged to either support ®r oppose in ordinary wavs the various. provisions of Bill, or .next -Gauses fhe Government may introduce as to the meeting of Provincial Councils. A great aifierence of opinion exists on the ques_tion of the meeting of the Councils Imongst Government supporters. ! At Wednesday’s sittmgrthe Native Minister exilaiSfed.- fhe juirhngefnents made tion. Sir George Grey announced that they did not meet with his approval, but, as his party had affirmed the principle of the Bill,-he would do his best-to improve the measure. j j ; J On Thursday, on the House going into ommittee on the Bill, Stout moved tlig t the title pf/thpßiO)i,- altered,' as there was .nothing’ wi the ®ll 4b ‘jftstify® its ffiisnomer. The motion was negatived. Clause two was struck out. On clause four “ Provinces to —the Abolition,” Major Atkinson moved that the first three lines be, struck, out . and the following words inserted : p?he second section of ■ the ConsHhition Actus liereliy repealed aind the provinces of Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay, Wellington, Canterbury, Otago, Nelson, Westland, and, Mal'lborough, lie, are, hereby abolished.” Sir George Grey moved that Auckland be sfcuck out. He intended to test the legality of the Abolition Bill; the motion was negatived. Mr. Stout moved that Otago be struck Out. The division gave" Ayes 11, Noes, sb. ARRIVAL of THE ENGLISH MATT, VIA SAN FRANCISCO. Auckland, September 9. ' The Mikado has arrived. She left San Francisco at noon on the 16th August for New Zealand. A ./ A”. London: , The German Government hadaddressed a formal complaint to Russia re the infraction of the frontier at Donbrowas by a Russian soldier, who orginated a difficulty, and died from wounds received in the affair. Colonel Baker, who was convicted of assault in a railway carriage, has been dismissed from the British Army. A battle has taken place between the Carlists and Alphonso troops at Arduna, and the latter were repulsed with great slaughter. Two hundred Jesuits have been ordered out of Costa Rica, on the representation of the Free Masons. Mr. Gladstone’s pamphlet elicited a rOply from Cardinal Manning, who says that Gladstone is one of the chief apostles of the revolution against the peace of the' Christian Church. The Madrid government intend sending ten thousand troops to suppress the Cuban insurrection. The United States Government have called in ten million dollars more paper money. A clerk of Blake, Robins and Co., San Francisco, has levanted with 25,000 dollars. , A terrible railway disaster has occurred at Chile, onjthe Santiago and Valparaiso Railroad. While the train was passing over a bridge it gave way, and the whole triiin containing fifty.persons was precipitated into the river. The lamps were bfoken, and set fire to the train. Half tlie passengers were crushed or burnt to death. Fifteen thousand mill operators struck

at Fall River, U.S., rather than submit to ten per cent, reduction. /There were serious riots at Glasgow, on August 9, and many were badly hurt. The Catholies, armedwithhatchets, steel knuckles, knives, werii organised under a leader. The Volunteers and txpops got ffil readiness’, and several men w«e taken into custody, who were said to be Head Centres. The riot was suppressed by the arrest of the ringleaders. An inquest was held relative to a catastrophe by a cfclM'sionQietWecjr the RojEl jteamer Albei4*,>4nd the MislrtW'. The jury were unable to agree upon a The Alphonsjst troops captured the [ Citaidel abet galrisonl of. Leodenrgel,, a fortified town in Catalonia. . _ . _ The Bank Of California <TO fihct'‘"the National Gold Banks of San Francisco have failed, causing -panic in San Francisco.