STAR TELEGRAMS

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1810, 21 October 1874, Page 2

STAR TELEGRAMS

PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.

Dunedin, This day. Stockowncrs in the Taapeka and Dunstan districts have sustained great loss of stock, owing to the late severe woather. Messrs Sutherland and Poison lost 2000 lambs.

Ml single girls per Invercargill fouud employment afc from £26 to £32 per annum. The supply is still inadequate. One married couple got £80; another £65.

Attckland, This d«ay. Sir George Grey has forwarded to the Superintendent a long petition to the Governor against tho abolition of tho provinces without first taking tho voice of the country on it. He enters into an able review of the advantages of provincial institutions, characterising them as the only true representatives of legislature calculated to make every educated colonist a statesman, to educate people in public affairs, and make them contented and prosperous. He has looked to such a system of federation as likely to-help to solve the great political problem of the day, not impossibly tho federation of all English-speaking people. He points to the tendency of Germans, Russians, and Italians iv this direction. He quotes the success of the Canadian federation and that of New Zealand, and says that provincial institutions are really the only representatives of Legislatures in tho colony. Ho says he is creditably informed that it is Mr. Vogel's.intention when home to induce the Imperial Parliament to pass a measure empowering the Assembly to destroy the provinces—ra power which was wisely withheld from it. He protests against this, and requests the Governor to v forward his petition to the Queen, and telegraph to Her Majesty's Government that no one is authorised by tho colony to take such a step. Sir hcor^e requests the Superintendent to obtain signatures to the petitien.

At the Bank of New . Zealand meeting the reports show a nett profit of £45,703 ; balance from last year, £13,212. A dividend was declared of 10 per cent, with a bonus of ss, besides carrying £13,916 on to the next half year. The reports were adopted. The Hon. James Williamson wa3 elected director vice Taylor, retired. Taylor was elected auditor.

Sharpmarket— Sales : Golden Calf (paid up), 7s 6d ; Caledonian, £5 10s.

FROM CORRESPONDENTS.

' ' Cosomandel, This day. The Union Beach will have over 600 ozs retorted gold, from specimens and general stuff now being cleaned up. Jol>n O'Neill, Esq , father of of Charles O'Neill Esq. Thames represents tire, died yesterday evening at the age of 74, after a short illnes3.

The Mail published a fearfully onesided extra this morning re libel case of Captain Fraser.

Taueakoa, This day. Bo the case of Quigley's death by scalding, the police versus Isaac Wilson, publican, of Obinemutu, three charges for breaches of clause 45 of the Licensing Act, 1871, were heard at Maketu yesterday. All three charges were clearly provea. For the first charge defendant was fined £5, and costs to the amount of 18s; second fine £5, and costs £5 19s; third fine £10, and costs £9 Ls. It transpired in evidence that James Mackay, jun., on the day of Quigley's death distributed sixteen gallons of rum in tho native settlement, besides cases of brandy.