SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1802, 1 May 1874, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(Pec Anglo-Australiau Press Telegraph Ageucy.)

Wmlingim, Thursday. The Provincial Council was opened to-day by the Superintendent, who, in a long address reviewing the administration of the affairs of the province for the past year in detail, and briefly since his advent to office, said that the estimated ordinary revenue for the year was £L 8,700, while the actual was £21,936. The estimated territorial revenue was £-15,000, and tho actual £57,907. He condemned the action of the General Government regarding the dismissal of the auditor, and locking up the treasury, as uncalled for and cruel. Among tho estimates was an item of £3,000 for tho discovery of goldfields. In concluding, ho said the Provincial Government had decided to confine its applications for borrowing this year within the most moderate limits. Contingent estimates would be sent down, limited to the amount of the reduced loan, namely, £60,000.— V ship is signalled as coming up tho harbour, supposed to be the' Golden Soa' or ' Wenington,' with immigrants, from London.'

Nemon, Thursday. Tho weather to-day was again perfect. —Handicap Hurdle iiace, mile and,

a-half, 40 sovs: Tommy Dodd, Bst lOlbs, first; Butcher Boy, lOst lOlbs, second. —Nelson Cup, 75 sovs, 2 miles, weight for age: Kakapo, first; Yatterina, second. This was a capital race. Nelson District Plate, of 30 sovs: Monarch, 1; Azatia, 2. Handicap, 40 sovs, mile and a-half: Kakapo, 1; Yatterina, 2; Calumny, 3. Consolation Stakes: Calumny, 1; Azatia, 2. DraEDiN, Thursday. The trial of Patrick Long for murder at Green Island terminated late last night. The jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter, and the prisoner was remanded for sentence,—Vl r. Turnbull, the Provincial Secretary, announced in the Council to-day that the Executive had tendered their resignation to the Superintendent, who is taking steps to appoint others in their places. They had resigned owing to being unable to spare timo for public duties, and the existeuce of a difference of opinion anmg members of the Executive. It is probable there will be u coalition between two parties in the House, Mr Donald Eeid or other mombers of his party accepting office.—lt. is stated that thirty-three female immigrants by the ship ' Asia' wore taken on board from the Queenstown reformatory !