Telegraphic Despatches.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 246, 17 October 1872, Page 7

Telegraphic Despatches.

o (Per Qrtville's Tdegram Co.) Wellington, October 16. The Commissioners Powers Act Amendment Bill, Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Bill', Dunedin Waterworks Loan Bill, Resident Magistrate's Act Amendment Bill, Southland Lands Bill, and Deceased Wife's Sister Marriage Bill, passed. Public Interest Bill, Dunedin Gas and Waterworks Bill, County* of Westland Local Revenues Allocation Bill, Insolvency Bill, and Juvenile Offenders Bill, discharged. Provincial Officers Disqualification Bill ordered to bg read a second time in six months. Reynolds' insular separation resolutions and Steward's Grand Juries Abolition Bill discharged. The Government undertook to give effect as far as possible to Bathgate's motion in favor. of having rolling stock for railways made in the colony, and workshops established in Auckland and Dunedin. , „ , Five,, natives were poisoned atWaipakurau — two died*. It is supposed a bag of flour purchased from a store contained arsenic. Insprector McDonnell died at Wairoa last week. He was buried with military Jionftys. Mr. Togel said tha Government had no intention to appoint a Minister of ■ Mine?. j Dunedin, Oct. 16th. I The Provincial Government have accep'ed a tender for the trigonometrical and topographical survey from Lake • Ohau.to Mount -Aspiring,

Bridge V. Maclean. — Verdict for plaintiff, L 26. Frizes for Provincial Agricultural Show amount to over LIQJQO. Bannerman wai chosen Moderator of Presbyterian Synod. ■ Melbourne advices of the 9th, confirm the report that the miners are returning (from Charters Towers, as there is iio alluvial ground. Grahamstown, Oct. 16th. A movement for obtaining local Government, with administration of local revenues, is on foot.