LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 268, 17 August 1872, Page 3

LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

o— Per New Zealand Press Association. o MR. STAFFORD’S MOTION.— NEW ELECTORAL BILLS.— GOOD YIELD OF GOLD AT REEFTi >N.—DISCOVERY OF A NEW AND EXTENSIVE COALFIELD. PARLIAMENTARY. Friday. Mr Stafford has given notice of his intention to move on Wednesday next, the following proposition : “That in the opinion of this House the administration by the present Government of the Public Works and Immigration Policy has been unsatisfactory; that the habitual absence of ministers from the seat of government during the recess, which results in their conducting important operations without frequent opportunities of consulting each other, prevents that concert and unity of action between the several departments, essential to the efficient direction of public affairs, either executive or legislative, and largely increases the cost of government: that in order to administer the public works and immigration policy in the most efficient and economical manner, the Colonial Government should retain full responsibility for the proper conduct of all works authorised and sole control over all sums voted by Parliament: and should, when practicable, avail itself of any existing Provincial or other local machinery in the supervision and execution of such works.”

The second reading of the new Electoral Bill has been moved. It consolidates existing electoral laws, and extends the franchise to all adult males having a salary of £IOO per annum, lodgeis paying £4O a year for board and residence, or £lO for lodging only, and all ratepayers in Municipalities-or Road Board districts; and also provides for the trial of election petitions by judges of the Supreme Court.

The House has adjourned until Tuesday.

The Tokatea Tunnel Bill has beon reported by the Private Bills Committee without any material amendment being made in it.