TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1758, 10 August 1895, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

THE LICENSING BILL • Wellington, WednesdayIn the -course' of his reply to tho brewers’ deputation, Mr Seddon said, there was more force in the statement that where the number of houses is to be a fixed number--such as one m seven hundred —-the question of reduction should be left to the committee. Ho did not think this unreasonable, and when the Bill was in committee he would not strenuously oppose amend - ment in that direction. He did not think there-was the slightest hope of getting the Bill altered to provide a three-fifths majority to carry reduc tiom. The House would adhere to the bare majority, and- he thought they would insist oh the cumulation of the J prohibition ’ and ‘reduction’ votes, but he himself thought it was wrong to take the votes of those who voted for prohibition, and count thorn for He <i:a first licenses to go ih a case of reduction were those endorsed for breaches of the law, could be expunged. He was not going to imperil his Bill by introducing a clause into it dealing with * tied ’ houses.

SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A CONSTABLE New Plymouth, Wednesday. , Information was received in town this morning that Constable Seymour,, stationed :at Pukearuho, wag found dead in‘a paddock near the schoolhouse, with a bullet wound through his forehead and a revolver lying by his sid9. Seymour was in town three weeks ago, vffien he. appeared : hearty and well.. Sergeant Ruffin leaves by train for Pukearuhe, where an inquest will be held on the body.

THE CONDEMNED WOMAN Inveecaugil, Wednesday. . Minnie Dean 1 "'will be executed next Monday inorning. C j ' ;

PURCHASE OF AN ESTATE Wellington, Thursday. : The Gazette contains an intimation of the .purchase under the Land for Settlements Act. of tho Maruwenua Estate, V- Otago,- containing 11,150 acres.-.

THE POPULATION Wellington, Thursday. The estimated population of the colohy on Juno 30, exclusive of Maoris was 365,365 males, 334,110 females, an increase of only 350 on the pi’oeed-. in o' quarter- The excess of births over deaths, was 2675, but the loss by departure was 2324.