SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 712, 9 January 1877, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Auckland last night. Government is resolved on an unflwcli>ing retr enchment, Ab a first Btep minis. ters have decided upon making consider* able reductions m bbc defence and Hative % Departmenents. The Provincial police f -caving now passed under the control of the General Government, thej will be absorbed m the Armed Constabulary, and organised upon one model. > Tbe Constabulary force will be reduced by about 200 men, and as the number ,pf •officers will be proportionately excessive; •tbe services of several will be dispensed with. The reduction -will take tbe form •of weeda? out, and among other objects, ••facilities for conceni ration at important points will not.be lost sight of. Wherever possible tho men will be largly employed i»**oad making-and-in local improvements., --' ■" . Ketrenchment m other departments is promisea vlioK} practicable. Offices will wiUteimalgstnated. ibeß lit Zea'-aad Loan and Mercantile

Company rcooivol a cablegram . quoting tallow-mutton 44* ; be.f, 425. Th? daughter of a sctller named AlcCormick, died from sunstroke. > The Rovds Brown and Cornford left i;i the He o. * Mi- Foote, proprietor of Miranda cnal mines, interviewed Dr Pollen for the purposo of soliciting forty poun is towards the expense of cutting the channel from mine into deep water, Foote said if this was done he would be able- to supply 100 .tons of coal per day, whereas ' now tbere Avas difficulty m Rupplying 60 tons per week at Mercer -to the order of tbe Gov v ment. " Dr Pollen said that tbe Government barf, resolved upon vigorous retrenchment and could hold gut ; no, hope .of the required sum b-ing granted. Napieb, Saturday. , , Sir Donald McLean had been for some few days before his death so ill that his recovery was considered but of the question. On Sunday his life was quit; despaired of; he rallied however, con-? siderably, and to a very early hour yerteiday it was thought possible the acute attack of his disease might pass over for a time, but about five m the morning, the attack took a radden turn for the worse, and at nine another turn, which rendered all hopeful anticipations vain from that time to ten minutes to 4 m the afternoon, when he died. Sunday^ THE FUNERAL OF SIR DONALD MoLEAN.. Sir Donald McLean's funeral has justconcluded; between two and three thoufand people were on the ground. Personal friends of Sir Don ale 1 headed the I rpcession, then came tlie Victoria and Scinde Masouio Lodges (about . eighty members), next the Good Templars (about sixty), the Oddfellows (about forty), somo Hibernians, aod then the general public. The Rev David gidey, St. Paul's (Presbyterian) Church> conducted ' the Church service, arid taen thj Rev Darcy Irvine, chaplain to the Victoria .Lodge, E C, conducted the At asonic service. Wkllik&ton, Saturday. , EEDUCTIONS: IN THE ARMED COJNST A BTJL ARF. Two junior inspectors, A C Richa-dson and Goiing.have been reduced to firstclass sub-inspectors, and two eub-inspec.-tors, McLean and Smith, and about thiny men have been discharged from the furce. . Chkistcrukch, Saturday. ■•• CODNIY COUNCIL PROCEEDIINGS. The Ashley > arid Geraldine ' County Councils hove resolved not to bring the permissive portions of the Counties Act into force. The Borongh Council resolved to bring the' whole Act into force. The remainder of the councils deferred the matter for. consideration until the next meeting, WESTrdBT. Saturday. The first meeting of the County Council was held yesterday at noon.. A icsoiutiou was passed to adopt, the en- j tire Acb.