THE DUNEDIN MEETING.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 670, 28 September 1876, Page 2

THE DUNEDIN MEETING.

Anxious that our readers should have the earliest possible news of the proceedings which took place at the political meeting held last uight in Dundiri i we were, through, official courtosy, enabled to make arrangements for receiving a telegraphic report np to a late hour last [ night. (The telegram commenced coming through only at half past eleveti o-'cloclc, anil we therefore reserve our comments of the proceedings until another itdna.

The Sons of Im.sti;ii are warned to aMe id &!re iuties of tlve I.olgc on SuiuriUv cvcnii.g nest, at tlio Vicsoiin Uall.

Masonic -— Tb^ usual monthly ntopting-. of tho mdoibeiß of Lolge Beta will fc-tke placo this evening, iv j^ie Ljdge-ruum, ' Koyal Hotel, HaWl^iCEaat. '

I Til Efl ksilJ.Toij jjiVETC j^^'SSMEtftf LIST l^noie }$in& at -J^Qst.OTcb fo^the in-/ £ rateffo\ei'B. x -Tlie ifoiird will hit, ut ILO lljniilton Motel, ou #fe 19th proximo to li^ur appeals.

,J£'iS,\s£AliUkrawlißUT'>6iiTTß have taken their work praetic illy in hand, tlin Comjmitt^n^tiyifnteSS SguHstyFe ve'nmg at the neutral Hold, To Awamutu, to raceivo^jejjprfcg,gad.,«»!jiD«»«<«i 1 -procuring hai es us ap edil j at possible.

I 3&KX JVaikato',.— >on Tuesday tbr cutter Dawn, when attempting to pet into Port Wmka o, ran upon "Che sfpt. Fortunatoly th«,t'idp was risibg uiid wi'h some little difficult} sfie was woikcd off lh safety, li«\H^g suffered Lttlo or uo d&aiaee.

1 ™ '• 3.-'- >» r - ** x *' - " ' ' Tub PnovpoiAii Job. — Tlie tenderv from CJUijJBUtion. v in<Avhtrb Wuikato contruotjis word carefully excluded, were, on Monday |ftern§on Provincial ouiccs, und iho construction of the Mangawara bridge cguiUed to Mr John if o Lean of Auckland for Iho sum of

The QtrtcftsTßr"di'<! not nuke her app araute last night. At the time the cuAuh loft Met car yesterday she had not arrivulat that place, having been down the river to Port .Waikato. la (going down tlis '/ivor yesterday, the, Wtikato broko do\vn between Uamiltou aud Ngaruawahia, and her pa>s-jngors wei« forwarded by the Cueuose.

TIIE GOTBRNMENT JVD TItH MlORt KINO. — It is currently reported in official circles that t'fio- meeting between Tawhiao nnd tbo (Jovckk* will (ako place much enriier than was oxpecteJ, and that Sir Donald will prb<*o«4 .to' Auckland immediately after. tbo pisaion closes to make arrangements for the forthcoming meeting.

The Meager Saw 'MilM. — Mr Eailoy of the above mills is prepared to supply timber in large and small quantities, and as the mills are situated on the river lo place any order ou board rks Company's steamers promptly and insure a daily delivery as far us Hamilton. Zsfi.r iliuiley draws spec al attention to hi* intention of promptly delivering all timber ordered.

The Hamilton West Highway Board ate about to undertake a very muoh needed piece of work, the execution of which will remove from Hamilton the | unenviable notrioty of poisw-iug aomo I of the worst roads in the Waikato dis triot, at least on one «id£ of the rivtr. Tenders, it will be a-eu, have been called for repairing the Ohaupo r,oad near Mr 1 Hammond's farm aid at other points, which will bs leceivod by tbs Board uutil the 10 th October.

Fire at Raglan.— We learned by telegraph, yesterJaj', that the offices and stores of the native company which carried on business at Raglan were destroyed by fire on Tuesday evening. The origin ot the fire is unknown, but, is attributed to rats gnawing matches. Nothing whatever was saved. The stock in the store at the time was, fortunately, low, and valued at about £100. Neither the stock nor the two buildings destroyed were insured.

• Wool. — GoMsborough'a -monthly circular lor Septdrtber, puoiished in Melbourne, in the abaence ol pales gives the following quotations as nominalfy based oil late ad*ices :■ — " Grea«y — inferior, 5d to G 1 ; ordinary |,o at oragft, 6d to *7H ; goo I to suppjrior, SI to Q£d. -Fleece, w.whcd— inferior, la to Is Id ; ordinary to average, It Id to la S 1' ; averago lo good, Is 3d to Is Gi; suptrbr, la 8J to Is 10d. ScuMrod— inferforj l()d to Is ; ordinary, la to la 2i ; mftldling to good, li 2d to la 4d ; superior, la G J to la Bd.

_, 1 Mb Dennes, well knb.wn in Auckland for his highly finished acd-oleverly executed limn lujbt exhibition* at dissolving views, will Tisit-Eamiltoa nerfc week, »na give the first of a aeries of entertain- | monts on Tuesday. We luve Jh*d the pleasure of boin^ present 'at these entertaiumoots in Auoklaud, »ud oan therefore, »pqalc authofitatively as to their merit. Should Mr Dcunca' cntorprtio meet .with » roasonablS atippurt it is hin intention after visiting ..litinilton to proc'eod .to Cambridge, To Awamubn, Alexandra, and Ngarnawfihi* oa .his , way, roui d th« Waikato. I /■'•«•

I OQ- T. — An 'open inbo'rlng nfc which suitable refre^htueuJMUwiU ibo "provided and -np chirges mid», will be held by the Hope .of Waikato Lodge in the Victoria Hall. Homilton, .t is evoning. Such an entertainment, >slijpnjd All, frionii* of Ttxnpornnco are invited to attond. The piogratnme r will consist of songs, readings, &6. ' A.tn*n may spend his evening to woron purposo, and go to bed with more Qn;bis 6o)/8cifl»ce than he would do if at the closo ot tho entertainiment he enrolled his namo for initiation nto the mysteries of tho order of the I 0 GUT. ,

TITBSDAT MQBKiNG*ft .-VROyc TO the" hardest oxporienced "this^'solson in Wai'kaloaß'tho early potatoes in many peoples gardens cajr taatifyii' liut*if iV black onod tho leaves of the e»i% spuds it had, a very different <A« r sonthe -loaV^of^tliij joucnnl.'ns it nflfeutad tlibsipjHoiniaea, for our iB3\io,of Tausday, wo gnevo bo s«y, is de3erviug-o£tho,oondcmhato)<y rfetaarlts passed up>n it by: a number of 'irate tub • loi-ibors, boirg f.iiut and .blurred, The Ofluae-Vas'the effect of the frost upon the roller, liardoniug' ifc sa ihab it? would not properly diutributo Ihe iuk'DT«r the type Our'isauooflo-day, frost or uo frost wjll, we 'iruaf, present a' more 're'adublo appoarancc, as sinco Tuesday tho rollers have been recast with a| : larger proportion oLi* i eaclo making thorp taficr for the ifock. The 1 ' effect ■will; Hve tru«t, bo to sweeten iho-tethper/'of our tubscriiers tqwardi au, us well as to sop.oa, tho roller for, as_, Mo »'WeH' ''know 1 ' in (hoae busy po'iiical times, tho pkpor is eagerly looked for, ai#£o:>d niut£e> such as we provide our reatSN is certainly do*er?ing of being bettor icrreditp tha'a it Was on Tuesday. ;

The Siiaw Relief Fond.— A. preliminary meeting of person! in Hamilton* wil ing to assist In getting up an' entertainment in bclulf of the funds for .the ; leliei of tbe widow of tho late Mr Shaw was held on Tuesday evening. Some twenty! persons werepreseut. A hearty willingness nas expressed by all - those present to assist, either as performers, or, ■ in canvassing for tho sale of tickets, As, however, it was considered neowsiry that' the scrviots of two or throo lady singers ' (should be secured, to make tho programme, taore generally attractive, the meeting was arij mruod -until •8-»torday cvo iu o»^ o »^ by which lime lit was expected' that . t)ha ausver \vouid bo reoeiv'ed.from the several' I O.Gt.T. JLodges, stating' what assistance' th»y would afford in tho matter The Te A warn utu DrhHaiM£)lu ''.jw^e uq^prstand, aro also about +4 tstKb the'inah^cjnip. and will shortly give an ou&i ttrifhncut in Alexaudra ou behalf of tlic f uud.

iNIsIUAIDNS OF (i VKUNMH.NT ltiT'iKßjitHUhbT. — MinUleis, we arc glad, to M > c ( > ha\< cuu rod un I lib woik of retrenchni»'nt. A I 'ill to rupe-t] tho New Zealand Forests AcT\w<as read 11 lirdt time, and wiil.do.iwa^ tvitb a 11^ iles^ljf expensive de-iartruWfe Tlia steam yachts, too, ordered from k>me by the Into governmeiit for official ' itso, though they will of [course ht»ve to be .paid for, 4ro4 r0 to bo sold on arrival— 11a doubt At 4 loss^ but tlio n>st loss will be leist, as-sn~aTl auch mutters tt is not tho first cost only, bub thi'ir mainteuinc3 t iat his t) be taken into nccount. Tliopo arc legacie* of txLravugaiica forwhioUjof course, the present ministry is not lcsponsible, and it> is satisfactory to find th<»m wisely rotrenchine, for small as these matters comparatively are, they show, a desire- for oconoiny. It will be, liowcver, when the esti nates come down that we shall havo an opportunity of seeing to what extent ministers mcau .to apply the pruning ktiift. The grcon wood has been allowed to crow rankly on every branch of the official tree and worlhloss suckers to spnng up and choke tho soil about its rpobs. Boot and trunk alike roquir*. 10 be relieved from ths useless lumber which is sapping their strength and impoverishing (ho land about thum. ' Who Pats ? —There are more ways of killing a cab than one, and more ways of pitying for politic ll support than that of' putting one's hand into one's own pocket. Tho printing the " Provincial Government Gruz.;tte " can be made a happy medium* for this torb of thing, and has been worked to pretty good purpose during the present contract. Some s ores of columns of correspondence . with Sir Julius Vogel, with the Secretary of State for the Colonise, with Dr Pollen and others liano been printed at the cost of the people of this provmce and now, we see, the Superintendent very coolly filla a whole page of a "Proviooial Gazette " wiiih the Bill with which it la his pleasure to waata the t me 1 f the House »till further during the present session. We have no objection to tho Superintendent", either as Superintendent of tbe Proviuco or a* » member of the House of Representatives, airing bis political crochets and republishing Assembly popera in the " Proviuuil G-azette " if he chooses to do 60, bat this should be clone out of his own, n jt out, of the common purse of tbe people of this province by paying for th 0 iusertion as an ■advertisement. When a Provincial Government cannot afford to give full publicity to the prosecution of ltd public works, so as to Secure the largest possible nunibor .of tenders, and consequent lowest p >ssible prico for their construction, as in the case of the Mangawara bridge, ib doea seem incou?i<teut tLat it can afford to spend money in needlessly swelling the oast of gover. xuent printin '.

PnovrNcrAii Abolition Pkrmtssive Bill. — YVhilo Maoaudrovv and the Ocago Pioviucilists are endiavouriug to save Provincialism by trying to get Otago made one County, Sir George Grey is seeking to preserve Provincial Institutions at tho o«ber ond of liio Colony by a dlreofc measure, which will be brought forward some day this week. The following is Sir Gwurgo Grey's Bill, the preamble exempted, which is longer than the bill itself :— Be it the eforeoaactei by tho General Assembly of • Now Zealand ia Parliament agaetnuled, aud by the authority of the a -me, a« follows 5 — 1. The short title of this Act b))»11 i>a "The Provincial Abolition Permissive Act, 1876." 2. SootiJiii tweut,y.fiv»j, twenty-aix, tweaty-sevmi, and tweiityoight of "Toe Abolition of B. Orinoco Act, 1875," are Hereby rcpi^lod. 3 It thill be lawful for the Sin>eriutorulei)t, by Pr >olamation or oth'.rwitie, to dissolve the Provincial CoUucil wheucver ho shall deem it expedient to do so. 4. " Tlij Abolition of Provinoos Aot, 1875," ihuil come Int > operation in eaoh provinco from mid afcora day to bu named in any Act or Ordinance for that purpose p\ s-^d by the Provincial Ci'uucil of euch Province. 5. Ko law or ordinance of th; General Assembly of N^w Zealand roa^o after the paaaing of this Aot shall Lnvo any force or effout in any province of -.New Zealand Constitution Aot, tihean and sixteenth Victoria, ohaptor Beveatytwo. 6. The amount to be annually cootributel by eaoh Province as its sh»re of the , interest payable on the Co'otiul debt shall be fixed by thti Act of tho General Assembly : Provided always that until such Aot it passed, the interest on the existing Colonial debt, which amounts to tight hundred and fifteen thousand pounds, shall bo charged against tho North liland, and the balance agiinst tho South Island, each province or provincial distriut conlr'butiog in proportion to Us revenue,' ordinary and territorial.

Tub Otago Meeting. — We take the following f'oai tho •' Herald" fnroishod by ono of its Wellington correspondents : — " Mr Macandrow and Mr htout left for Dunedin on Sunday, . A pnb'ic meoliog is to bo held thera on Wed ties-lay evening next to tako in consideratio 1 the position of the province of Otago under the new system of Centralisation as p-oposed by th t o measures of tho present (iovernmcat. There is no doubt such a meeting will he fully attended and a course marked o'lt that does not appear to bo foreseen by the Centralists, which has never entered into their ca'cnUtioin. Aot« of Parliament to be effective?, mu*t be supported either by the sympathies of tho pcoplo or enforced by the exhibition of eternal povrec The present proposals are' op. posed to fht wish*-* of tbo people of Otago. Ths Government possesses no forces to ooinpol obedience • In what way, ,ihen, oan they expet cr hope to «ive effect to their measures p Ho* oan they check anj thing approaching to an unanimous* resistance oa tka p»rl of (be pooplc? Suppose at that public meshing tbo flag Of independence is raised ; stipposo a convention meets and agrees tlut Otago ■ould Leuom an independent colony, spporate a-id distinct from tbo rest of New Zealand, and that this indrp^ndenk oolony refuses to recognise Wellington laws, refuses to contribute to Wellington's exptnais, refused to pay anything towards the expences of the General Government expeot its fair portiou of tiio debt.) what can the General Government do under euch circumstances P — simply nothing. Otago has ample funds in its customs and land revenue, it has the oontrol of the police force, and there is no external power to interfere. Should the province take this course, and It is not at all improbable that it «iU, the General Government at Wellington would soon be brought on its knees, Without the Customs contributions from Otago, the great central authorities could not oarry on for one month, the whole thing would collapse, and these Ministers -who have been building castles in the air for their own aggrandisement and that of Wellington, wottld be exhibited in the ridiculous position of the biter bit. The force of events may overthrow them and their' schemes if the Parliament cannot. * '