LATE TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 1064, 26 April 1890, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.

BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)

ti,« r> • ■:, Bu^ April 25. _ J he Premier considers the date of opening larliament will be either June 12 orJllne'

J It is understood that the vacancy in the Government Insurance Department will be conferred on Mr. J. H . Richardson, secretary of the department A return prepared by the Lands Department shews the area of land iu the c Ji olly carrying flax to be: Crown laud, 119 690 acres ; private lauds, 179,450 acres ; Native lands 147,202 ; total 446,402 acres Until recently it had been Considered a weed and burnt off. The visitation of •• la grippe " in Grevmomh is most severe. One County Council conference at. Christchurch reported that it is desirable in their opimon that a separate Act be obtained re ULing to water races, and that power be given to local bodies to levy special rates to keep m ers clean. . - fr.?,TIT" l T" b h ; lve " re <*ived a cablegram fiom the Agent-General asking if they are prepared to make any [recommendation to Parliament m connection with the proposed reduction of postal rates. A reply has been *ejt that Government are quite prepared to consider the proposals, but the matter will not be discussed until the full Cabinet the Postmaster-General considers o.iere would be no difficulty in the way of accepting the reduction, as the revenue of the colony is sufficiently to stand the loss, but he has grave doubts whether the cclony would consent to increased taxation to make up the deficiency. Four thousand rioters sacked the town of beala in. Gahcia, and in an encounter with the military eleven were shot dead. A man who has not been identified was savagely murdered in Sydney Domain and the nnuilateu body thrown into the harbor. I here is no clue to the murderer.