OTAGO.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3972, 16 May 1870, Page 6

OTAGO.

We have files of the Daily Times and Star to the 7th, Efforts are being made by the licensed ylcjbuallerij of Otajo towards the abolition of bottle license^ ; Jn ppdjy t° remove any finaiicial difficulty, it jg prqppse^ th%i §1^ publicans should pay an additional £.5, per annum for licenses. The Bruce Herald learns from authentic sources that the Otago Provincial Government chest boasts of something like £25,000 p,n hand. A gro.po.saf yO purchase the Dunedin GaS Works ior the city, the pvjpe. gf £22,000, h^s* been negatived in tiie Gfty C/ogneJl by five votes to three, Out of a mining population of I, 500 on the Lawrence Goldfield, Ofcago, 500 are Chinese ; and out of 1, 343 miners in the Queenstown district, 635 are Chinese. A man named Kane has been arrested at V^atjgaloa, Ofcago, > n a charge of setting fire to au fj.wetying at Wangaloa Creek, near I£aitangasa ; duimg |hg nigh^ of the Bbh Aptil. ~ * " s In the Provincial Council of Ofcago on tho 3rd, Mr. Mosley moved, "That an address be presented to his Honor the Superintendent requesting tha 1 ; he would be ple\sed to i'ecwaweif(J tp the General Assembly the desirabiJity of a duty foehj^ Jeyied, for the pu^ poses of revenue, on granTancf flouv i^pflriiQd into this colony." Mr. Mosley having 'replied, the motion was put and carried on the voices, Mr. Mclndoe's being the only dissentient voice. Mr Haughton had given notice of the following motion, but, in consequence of hia bojng absent from his plao^ vhen ifc was called on, it lapsed *-=•' * That this Qouncil is of opinion that, in consideration of the approaching general elections, it is desirable that the franchise should be placed upon a basis more consistent than the preseit with |ho due representation of the people, and recommend* phs adoption of Registered Manhood Suffrage." f An address on Tempsrance was 'delivered on the night of the Bth, in Kno? Church, by the Hon. Mr. Fox. The church was crowded in every part. The savage dog nuisance is very vigorously suppressed . Tho Ivfal grilling of Read's reef gave an ounce to the tgu. Thir£y-five tons of Colclough's went four ounces tq the ton. On' Sunday last, Mr. Isaiah Mee, ' of Tuapeka Flat, was rushed by a cow, and suffered some severe bruises. A wag remarks that it was a very "cowardly" assault. At a public meeting, held at Queenstown, ife was resolyed fff open the Shotover bridge early this month with a g»and ceremony and a freo' luncheon for 1,000 persons, ' '