LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 311, 8 November 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(PEU PRESS AGENOV.) WELLINGTON. Friday, PARLIAMENTARY. Ballance gave notice that County Councils exercise the functions of the Waste Lands Boards in their respective districts, and that Boards be abolished in 1880. Arrangements have been made to bring Morgan to Wellington. The Government said no communica*

tion had been received from ltowi, relative to the extension of the main line of railway from Auckland to Taupo and West Coast. Plans for railway workshops at or near Dunedin, similar to those in Dunedin, were in preparation, and a Bum would bo placed on the estimates for work.

The Triennial Parliaments Bill was brought up as amended. Reeves moved that clause 3 be amended, to make Parliament expire December, 1882, instead of February. The Premier wanted the Bill reported, and other business pro. ceeded with, Bill was then reported by 42 against 24, read a third time, and passed on the motion of the Premier.

The Qualification of Electors Bill was further considered in committee. Bill provided that every man 21 or upwards, having £25 worth of freehold property six months before registration, and every nun who had resided in tho colony and six months in an electoral district shall bo qualified an elector. Grey considered manhood suffrage was all that was required. He supported the amendment to be introduced by Moss, provided property qualification be dispensed with, and one month substituted for six months.

Montgomery moved that no amount of property entitle any elector to more than one vote in the colony.

Swauson supported, with some warmth, the retention of property qualification as aimicouragement to the acquisition of the same by working men.

Wallis also concurred with the Premier, and contended the country did not want to exclude property from the qualification. It was only those out of Joflice who asked for it. Those persons, a few weeks earlier, had no intention of opposing property qualification, and on that point would have been induced to postpone their edu-

cation. Interrupted by 5,30,

The Hinemoa will leave with about twenty-five members for Christchurch after the House rises to-night. The reclaimed land purchasers have been allowed three months' grace in respect of their next payment in consequence of the great depression of the times. The Government have issued instruc-

tions to immigration officers in the various ports of the colony to accept no fresh nominations except in favor of female domestic servants, unless upon the understanding that the Government are not bound to act upon the nomination within any given time. The Agent-General is partly to suspend all immigration temporarily, taking care that none will arrive in the winter months. Faith, however, will be kept with those immigrants who had already made arrangements to come out before these instructions were issued. There are certain special cases where the Agent-General is allowed to use his own discretion,

It is understood that since the Government provisionally accepted the contract for the Wellington-Foxton railway) they have received news of an unfavorable nature regarding the floating of the five million loan at present, Under those conditions it was considered advisable to abstain from contracting fresh liabilities of any magnitude,

The Waste Lands Board recommend the minimum price of land in the Wellington district to be reduced from 10s to 7s Gd, no deferred payments being allowed regarding town sections. Only a percentage of each block will be sold on deferred payments, and in all cases roads are to be cleared before the sections are put up for sale. Additional entries for Wellington Cup : Soukar, Norseman, and Grip. WAITARA. Friday. A boat manned by seven hands left the railway wharf at Mokau at 4.30 this morning with the necessary gear for launching the Hannah Mokau. While crossing the bar here, she filled and foundered, four of the hands being drowned, their names being Benjamin Gollop, Harry Tate, Fred Archer, George Tarrel. Gollop leaves a wife and five children. Tate was only four months married. Archer and Tarrell were lately seamen on board the schooner Nelson. Later.—Archer's body came asho're at ten, no others yet recovered. I MELBOURNE. Thursday. Bank robbers were captured by the police this morning. They are sons of a selector, and arrived by the-Ringarooma.