TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4163, 22 June 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, June 2lst. A long correspondence between Dr Pollen and the Superintendent in the Gazette tonight, commences with a -letter from Dr Tollen, dated IS h March, stating that the. engineer in charge of road and bridge works at Waikato reports the bad state of the bridge over the Whangarurino, on the Mercer and Newcastle Main Road. He proceeds to state that as the Government are paying the Province large sums out of confiscated lands, they can no longer keep that road in repair. Sir George Grey replies that £2567 is all that has been received. The amount of balance, Dr Pollen replies, is £725, which will be paid forthwith. On the Cth June the Provincial Accountant, after previous applications, telegraphs that unless the capitation special allowance is paid over, the Province will be unable to meet its engagements. The reply that follows is that the money is stopped to pay the interest on railways. Sir George Grey replies, protesting against the stoppage at a time when the Province was involved in liabilities arbitrarily ordered by Dr Pollen on the goldfields, which he considered unnecessarily large. Dr Pollen replies that the money was stopped in the ordinary course of business. He recognised the duty of the Government to carry on the Province if necessary, until the case is brought before Parliament; and if an application to that effect is made, the Cabinet would consider it. He would take the responsibility of ordering the money to be paid. Sir George Grey replies in a letter dated to-day, 21st June, that the £GOOO advance was wrongfully held back from the Province. Also, that if Ministers had the power to pay it now, it could be done so before. He refuses to accept it, except as a right, and continues, the " recovery of the amount due for interest, on the Onehunga Railway has not been made in the regular course of business." He demands it should have been made monthly. " Accounts should, by law, have been furnished to me, to which I should have had an opportunity of objecting and being heard, before the whole sum arbitrarily was levied on the Province. I have already stated my belief that to take this amount for a capitation allowance was an unlawful act by you, and will take the opinion of your Solicitor-General on this point. lam now taking a legal opinion regarding it, and if my belief on this point turns out to be right, and the capitation allowance is not paid, I propose to take means in a friendly spirit and determine the great constitutional question, whether or not there are legal means by which Provinces can support their rights instead of either craving them by unbecoming submission, or engaging in disputes which might have most unhappy and dangerous results." Napier, June 21st. Mr Ormend has been re-elected for Hastings unopposed. Heavy rains on Saturday flooded the Meanee Flats and low-lying part of the town, and many sheep were drowned. A serious case of stabbing occurred on [ Saturday evening. James Cable, a brick-

layer, "was~stabbed .-with a knife' by' Johd Thomas, a "cab driyer. /He inflictec? * dangerous wound of five inches long in the stomach. He was Jorbught before the Resi^eAtr Magistrate to-day and remanded. Thonuat 1 was employed as an overseer on the road, and was discharged by! Cable, under whom he was working, and the latter resented ifc. Cable may recover, but he is not out oE danger. . A- '-' l A letter from Or Spencer on the cause of the late epidemic here, points out that the immigrants, per Clarence, were landed herein. every stage of diseaae (typhoid), and. landed at the barracks. The Council meets, after the adjournment ef a week, to-morrow. Nelson, June 21st. The schooner Julius Vogel, - sixteen days, out from Waitara to Foxton,- put in here yesterday. She experienced a heavy/gale for a fortnight, and it was blowing for; five" days to the westward. One squall" struck her and laid her on her beam ends for aquarter of an hour. : She spoke the schooner: Torcah on Friday, a month out from Kaipara to Taranaki. The Governor leaves for Wellington afc. noon to-morrow.- ■ "- Blenheim, Jane 2lsfr. At the Wairau election Ward polled, afc Blenheim, 116; Marlborough town, ,26; and Ren wick, 36. Moorhouse, at Blenheim, 125; Marlborough town,. 41 ; and Renwick^ • 7^, The majority for Ward at these three places was five. There still' remain to come in tbe returns from Wairau Valley and Flaxbourne. The election has been most keenly contested. There was great excitement J towards the close, and heavy odds were laid ' 1 on Ward. L Ikvercaegill, June 2lsfe ': In the Supreme Court to-day, the case o£ Longuet «. Kingswell, re pollution of the ' Waikivi stream, was concluded. The Jury, t- after an absence of two hours, returned a verdict for. the plaintiff on all the issues. Damages assessed in respect of the last being ' £1. On the application of Mr Harvey,-the plaintiff's counsel, the Judge certified .for c costs under the 167 th rule. The Cbu'rfr-tIU'XL - adjourned sine die.