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Per New Zealand Press Association. o PROCEEDINGS IN HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. PUBLIC HEALTH BIiX.-ACCIDENT TO THE S.S. TARARUA.—ELECTION FOR COLERIDGE.—QUARTZ REEFS AT STAG VALLEY. WELLINGTON. Hall took his seat in the Legislative Council to-day. Colonel Russell’s seat has been notified as being vacant on account of his having been appointed inspector of Schools. In the House of Representatives. Gisborne, in his reply to liolleston, said that the Inspector of Lunatic Asylums in Victoria had been r- quested to visit and inspect the New Zealand Asylums, atid was shortly expected. The Government would not propose to amend the Lunatics Act until it is report hail lieen received. The Public Health Bill has been read for ttie second time. It proposes a Ceotial Board of Health in each province, consisting of the Superintendent, the Executive, and three members to he appointed by the General Government, and local District Boards, consisting of Municipal authorities or Highway Boards. Very extensive powers are given to these Boards. Vaccination is rendered compulsory. Collins has given notice of motion to reduce the gold duty to 2s per ounce. PORT CHALMERS. Dench has been elected Mayor of Port Chalmerg. CHRISTCHURCH. The election for a member for the district of Coleridge is over. Bluett polled 106, Hart 10, and Jehson 49. Bluett is therefore elected. NAPIER. Great dissatisfaction is expressed here at the non-arrival of Judge Johnston, and the sittings, of the Supreme Court have been postponed for the third time. Litigants and witnesses havo been waiting for weeks in Napier. DUNEDIN. The s,s. Tararu during a severe gale so injured her stern post that she cannot proceed back to Melbourne, but will have to remain here for repairs. Judge Chapman has been re-elected as President of the Otago Institute. Great numbers are being vaccinated. One and a half tons of stone from the prospecting claims, and the same amount from the freehold claims, Stag Valley, have been crushed at the Government Battery, and the parcels yielded twenty four and twenty six pennyweights respectively.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 247, 24 July 1872, Page 3
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