TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4206, 12 September 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Press Telegraph Agenov.] Auckland, Friday, The Loch Urr has arrived from Loudon, after a passage of ninety-four days from Gravesend. No passengers. A seaman, named Carlson, fell from the main rigging on his head, and was killed. The Reform League has held a public meeting ; the Mayor was chairman. It passed resolutions in favor of abolishing Provincialism throughout the Colony. It intends establishing committees and branches of the society in all parts of the Colony. Captain Daldywas the chief speaker. Napier, Friday. The verdict of the jury, in the case of the Norwegian hoy whose body was found in the Tula Tula River, was one of “ accidentally" drowned.” Wanganui, Friday. The municipal elections resulted as follows: —St. John’s Ward R. Stovie, 80 ; R. Pharazyn, 23. Cooks Ward—R. Churton, 162;" V. Brown, 15. Queensland Ward—J. Duigan, 101; Sim, 82. Christchurch, Friday. Mr. Rollestou addressed his constituents in the Avon district last night, in a speech of two hours’ duration. The principal part of it was devoted to a resume of the Acts of the General Assembly from 1872 to 1871. He did not enter into the question of the abolition of Provinces so, fully as was expected. Having reviewed the Assembly business since 1872, he said he much regretted that Mr. Vogel was about to leave for England at a time when his presence in the Colony, considering the vast undertakings in which the Colony had embarked, was absolutely necessary. (Hear, hear.) He proceeded to contrast the contributions of the North and Middle Island to the General and Customs revenue of the Colony, and pointed out that the contributions of Canterbury and Otago to the Customs revenue were nearly equal to the contributions of all the rest of the Colony. He complained of the threat of dissolution held out last session by Mr. Vogel in the event of the House not agreeing to his abolition proposals. Respecting these proposals themselves he thought them most inopportune—that people had elected members of present Assembly on a totally different platform, for the most part members had been elected by the people to support the Government in its scheme of Immigration and Public Works, and it was unfair to the people of the Colony, when only one more session of Assembly was unexpired, to ask the House to agree to a proposition which would have the effect of wiping out the institutions of a portion of the Colony. He had frequently declared that he was no ultra-Provincialist. If the people expressed a desire that there should be a change in the Constitution, and it was expressed in an unmistakable manner, he for one would most ■willingly agree with their desires and do his best for a new order of things, but he maintained that the people of the Colony had not had an opportunity to do this, and until they had he was clearly of opinion that such a proposal as that made by Mr. Vogel last session was most inopportune. At the conclusion of his speech a vote of confidence in Mr. Rollestou was unanimously passed.