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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 371, 14 April 1876, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our . own correspondent..)

Dunedin, Thursday Evening, The Albion, with the Suez mail, has left Melbourne. Due at Bluff on Saturday. Do Murska is a passenger. The Zealandia left Auckland with the outward Californiau mad yesterday. At the Balclutha Eaoee yesterday King

Phillip won the principal event. Was protested against for jostling Glengarry. The Stewards upheld the protest, awarding the race to Glengarry, which gave great dissatisfaction. Sir William won the Flying Handicap.

Special ' Gazette' yesterday contains Macandrew's reply to VogeT's circular, re the Commissioners visit. The following are the principal parts of the letter:—" In reply, I have to state that fihe present action of the Colonial Executive in takiig for granted that the new Parliament, to which was relegated the ratification or otherwise of the 'Abolition of Provinces Bill,' will ratify thesame, appears to me premature. It w£B be time enough , o take such action after Parliament has determined as to what is to be the specific form of Government for the future. I c.mnot for a momenf suppose in the case of CHago where, under the much-abused Provincial institutions, the Province hr.s grown np and flourished to a marvellous extent, these institutions are to be wantonly destroyed in the very prime of their manhood, and directly in the teeth of declared and all but unanimous desire and conviction of thepeople. 1 feel per:uaded if a plebiscite were takun of the question a vast proportion of votes would be on one 3ide, j>nd in favor of the Province retaining its own revenues, distributing them on its own behalf, and working out its own destiny in its own way. You may iest assured it is a grand mistake to suppose that the people in this Province will tamely submit to have forced upon them a system of political communism, from which they have everything to lose, and nothing to gain—to aid and abet in which, on my part, would be to belie the position I have for so many years held at the hande of the people. 1 n consequence of whnt T have so fully stated in this letter, and as I am advised that the Bending of three gentlemen to inspect the departments of the Provincial Government is without legal or constitutional authority I must inform Messrs. Gisborne, Seed, and Knowles that, so far as the Provincial Government of Otago is concerned, they cannot expect any aid in their mission." The ' Star' hints that the Government contemplate selling blocks of laJJd to relieve the Province of pressing financial difficulties. The following wool telegram has been received by the Loan Agjncy : LONDON April Bth. "Wool sales opened yesterday. Sales about 200,000 bales, 23,000 sent to manufacturing districts direjt. Opening, catalogue contained SOOO bales. Competition declining. Quotation average £d to Id lower ihan at opening. Principle, decline in medium, infe-; rior, and crossbred. Present quotations cannot possibly be maintained throughout year. Scoured declined Id per pound since close las I sale.-i." Pur fcingarooma, at the Bluff:— LO.HDOX. April 10. In reply to a question, "Disraeli cited a precedent for the Queen's absence <Wing the session, and sail her visit to thei. Continent was strictly domes iic. April If. The Government takes the extreme step of seizing Stevenson's letters by the.inail. The Customs officers have been withdrawn from the warehouse. Stevenson hasjt-ommenced an action against the Government, laying damage at £IO,OOO. MELBOURNE. • April 6th. : Nesbitt, known as "Scotch Jock," died very suddenly. Well known in JS.Z. A private London telegram mentions a fall of 2d per pound on greasy wooi.Parliament, after., a session of eleven month?, will be prorogued to : morrow.'"',Only one'bill of aiiy consequence has been passed —the Loan Bill, for £'2,800,000, for railway construction, erection of school buildings, and water works. Parliament must meet againin June. Scenes in the Assembly looked for now regularly.