INTERPROVINCIAL.

Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 3975, 22 April 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

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THE PREMIES AT MABLBOROUOH. SUICIDE AT TIMAP.U. AvcKtkNv, April 20. The Governor visited the Industrial School to-day. A pigeon match between Bishop and -Henderson, for £50 a aide, was won by Bishop with twenty-fire out of a powible thirty.

""«*» « W^ISSJ In the rifle mate!, »£& cadet,, ten KeUon wdota nigiieat ecorer making 37, ut<] Hie i"'. ' t! * ■ Hie Easter encampment of nil the '£' Vvolunteers v proving B most successful Tno review will bo held on Moi:daJ ffair - The Premier arrived »t one. Mr H. - eon the defeated candidate ut a Uto eW*' and a committee, presented an addre . ?' G. Grey replied, exnree«ti K thank S f promising the extension of the W Blenheim at once. He honed mm ? lr,tc district tied on to ChruUhurSThJ and m his time ho believed they would "r , be connected with the West CW &L '° SirO Qroy spent the afternoon in i,,f viewing Maon. and inspecting building* afterwards walked through the to» . eight o'clock lie addressed a crowded iT" • in E wart. Hall. A. G. Foil, E,f was unanimously voted to tho oh . a J°r, alluded to the Premier in comnhT' terms as the parent of their constiS. 4 ? Sir G. Grey was received withiZl and said hia pleasure in attending &t S^ l was enhanced beoause ho had been j .H mental in calling their settlement into w i quieting the difficulties or • \f* Native title to the dietrict of QwTr?* tt ° Sound, Picton, and Blenheim B e »f c alluded to tho colonialieationof thekmdf j justified by the action of the late "? with regard to Canterbury and oft next jiutificd his conduct in ndvisU 5! Governor to disallow the Land Bill andin proceeded to the extension of the 'franeW nothing new being said. Tho cqudieationrt representation to population and the L; dence of taxation wero dealt with at c «miid7" able length, but the Premier only his previous utterances. Ho sUted thrt* was the intention of tho Government to cbj, the land for the purpose of taxation into m bad, (2) tolerable, and (3) R ood, tho taM an acreage tax. It would be neoeMary v, frame a new land law, hedged round {to, restrictions to prevent gridironing and O ft« junilar enh. It waa necessary that no in the Native department ehould be allow*) to bargain for themselves or friend*, and m pewon holding any Government office a? appointment ehould be allowed to purclZ Govermnent lands The peroration was to that m Chnetohuroh, the speaker ellndiw to himself ac Btanding between the peet »J tho future ; the past dreading the fnt nre v they had legislated for themselves and not for tho time to come. He then alluded to the establishment of an aristocracy in the coloniei. to whioh end the first stepe had been Uken which were absolutely illegal.. The iriTin? of titles to persons in New Zealand, t-hwh tiey should hold there and nowhere else he could only call creating an aruJocwoy'of a oontemptible sort. The Queen might ff i To titles of honor to persons to hold ttrooghout the empire, but any such new fonm of title as are to be held in New Zealand done nnut receive the sanction of the Ajsembly. Hβ had been called upon to proclaim one of, theje titles in the "Gazette," and as their Premierlad refused to do so. He would do co again until he was sanctioned by the Assembly, but in his opinion the honors given to a subject in New Zealand should be the same as thoae given to any British snbject in any part of the empire. He trusted so long at he *m Premier such spurious titles would be rejected with ecorn.

Sir G. (3-rey was listened to with marled attention throughout, and the applause' «v frequent and hearty. •* Joseph Ward, fate M.H.R. for Wairoa, proposed a vote of thanks and confidence, whioh was seconded by Q-eo. Henderson and carried unanimously with loud applause. A vote of thanks to the chairman, proposed bj Sir G. Grey, terminated the proceeding),'' Sir G. Grey left for Wellington at once, via Picton.

|>BOM OUB OWN pOBUteFONDBST.] TiatAßtr, April 21. A verdict of "burned to death fyiie " woe returned ab the inquest on' William Somers, who was burned at Pleasant Point last Wednesday. A baker named William Taylor wot fbnid hanging by a rope in the forgo bfijJan arid Stumbles' blacksmith's shop, Kasrd, this morning. He was quite dead and cold when discovered. He had been driniingTery hard lately, and it is supposed committed eukido while in delirium tremens. ' ;,-.

Great preparations have been made tor the annual temperance picnio at Waimnte tomorrow. Several thousand people are ex. peeled to be present. Special trams have been engaged.