Telegraphic Despatches

Southland Times, Issue 961, 1 June 1868, Page 2

Telegraphic Despatches

"Wellington-, Thursday. — Mr Bunny's motion, last night, in the Provincial Council, affirming the injustice to Waira- ! rapa, was rejected. — The Select Committee condems the new contract recently entered into by the Executive for the erection of the patent slip, and a want of confidence motion is threatened. — There has been a fire in Napier, by which six small dwellings were destroyed. — Auckland advicea are to the 23rd. Trade is reviving, and confidence being gradually restored. There is the prospect of a brisk winter and spring trade now the Thames gold fields have been opened up. Pttnedin, Friday. — In the Provincial Council last night the new Executive took their seats. Mr D. Reid, Provincial Treasurer and Secretary ; Mr Thomson, Land and "Works ; Messrs Hutcheson and Clark, members without office. They were turned out on a motion of want of confidence brought forward by Mr M'Dermid : ayes, 16 ; noes, 13. Mr M'Dermid has been sent for. "Wellington, Friday. — A meeting of merchants was held to-day to promote the formation of a company to construct a graving dock at Evans' Bay, and was influentially attended. — Groves has been some time prospecting in tbe "Wairarapa, where he had traced quartz, but without finding gold. A telegram has just come in stating that he had at last struck gold, and had brought into Grreytown twelve splendid specimens, found in a locality between "Wairarapara and the Manawatu. Dunedin, Saturday. — In the Provincial Council last night, the new Executive was gazetted: Yogel, Secretary and Treasurer ; Duncan, Land and "Works ; Haggitt, Solicitor ; and Hughes and M'Dermid, members without office. A motion in favor of a dissolution, to enable elections to take place about December, was carried : ayes 18, noes 2. The noes were in favor of a dissolution, but voted to enable the division to be recorded ; but the effect is that the motion was not affirmed by an absolute majority of the Council, and the Superintendent will, in consequence, probably decline to recommend the Governor to dissolve the Council. — Regatta and Tradesman's Ball on today. Weather cold and wet. — First stone of a new church on Bell Hill was laid yesterday by Dr Burns.