TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

Southland Times, Issue 699, 22 July 1867, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

■>.'■■■{ Wellington^ : ; ■*••;'■ ■•:';; Wellington, July 20th, 4.20.g;m.; £100,000 granted last' mgldt ia'meet, currentr expenses of colony. ' v"' Municipal' Corporation Billon hands of printers. -„,1:i~ :,"-~^:^'~ :^yJ-t^.-'- r -^--'-^-' Although leaye had been .granted to introduce Bill f<fc . delegation, or G-over-nor's'^powers to Ex%^t§^P^tag°; it was not brought down last iight. ; InTiply kHSTr Camp DelT,"ThVOolonial" did not Keiieve the Government "of '"We'stem Australia gave' ■conditional pardons> but would cemmunicate: with it on subject": Act' coiildl' nof be passed^ preventing the- landing of convists, but one might be to fine- captains of vessels bringing them over.. ._ ; " • But little parliamentaryJbusiness doing untill result of Opposition resolutions is known. . ' ■ ~ \-. Many of those who voted with thfc G-overnment ori' thejMacandrew question w3i "not do so on that •of Provincialism 1 , pure et simple. ....... . „; : ; Meeting of Opposition was held : at Club to-day:. Thirty members of the House attended. ' Thefollowing resolution were-- adopted :—" That a committee be appointed to- -report-on- the—Financial position of the Colony, with' reference to; ari apportionment ; being, made between Provinces of the two Islands with a view to the whole management of Native affairs being placed in the hands of the; Provinces, such Cojnmittee tp..cpnsist_ofi the following G-entleman :^-The Super-' iritendents of Provinces holding seats in the House, Mr JVC. EicKmond,on behalf of General G-overnment, and rep- 1 resenting Taranaki ; aifd" Mr Dillon Bell 1 reprenenting Southland." \: r. : ';