TELEGRAMS.

Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1633, 16 May 1873, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[New Zealand Pbess Association Telegeams.] Wellington, May 15. The Provincial Council have voted £2000 as rewards for the discovery of gold and coalfields in the Province. CHRISTCHtTBCIT, May 15. The Provincial Council have agreed to vote £150,000 for the Lyttelton harbor works. £100,000 of this sum ia to be raised under the Lyttelton Harbor Works Loan Act, and the balance to come out of the Provincial revenue. Dpnedin, May 15. In the Provincial Council to-day, resolutions were tabled to the effect that the Council pledged itself to accept any overt, by resolution or otherwise, in the Assembly to despoil the Province of its land fund, as the signal for instant separation, and a declaration of their independence of the Colony. Mr. Bathgate gave notice of a series of resolutions affirming the proceedings of the Council of the Colonial University to be detrimental to the cause of education in the Colony as having a tendency to lower the standard, by elevating the inferior schools to a rank that cannot be maintained, besides a manifest evasion of the law; that the Colonial vote should be applied towards the maintenance of the University at Auckland ; and requesting the Assembly to strengthen Otago's application for a Eoyal Charter. To-day, Mr. Eeid submitted to the Council the names of the new Provincial Executive, as follows: —Provincial Secretary, Treasurer, and Lands, Mr. Eeid; Solicitor, Mr. Stout; Eoads and Public Works, Mr. Green; Goldfields, Mr. J. C. Brown; i without office, Mr. Lumsden, At the evening ' Bitting, Mr. Eeid stated that the Superintendent had refused to accept the names cf the new Government. A message from the Superintendent was read, reiterating the request for a dissolution. Inveboaegill, May 15. The Curator of the salmon ponds reports a number of the ova, ex Oberon. are hatched out, and a good many others show signs of vitality. Napier, May 15. Watt Brothers are sending Home for a new steamer for the Auckland trade, to be similar to the Star of the South, but larger. Auckland, May 15. There is no further news from the Waikato. Tawhiao's answer is expected on the 20th. The Constabulary in the district have recently been well supplied with ammunition. The Sesident Magistrate gave judgment against the defendant, who refused to pay the Education rate. Subscriptions are being raised to carry the case to the Court of Appeal. Arrived. —Edinburgh Castle, from London. The ltuiti meeting is over. There is no chance of securing Sullivan's murderers. Bewi declares that he will not go' against the Government. P'urukuru declariß he will fight first against sellers of land. W«himei has returned to Mokau. Large numbers of the Kingites declare that they will come over to the pakeha side. An answer to Mr.Maekay's demand will be given on Tuesday. G-REYMCHJTH, May 15. A monster meeting has been held in the Town Hall to protest against the truck system alleged to be carried on on Government w^rks in this district. The first resolution was that the meeting was desiroui of abolishing the truck aystem as injurious to the commuuity, and especially to the working men empojed on Government roads on the West Coast. The second was that the meeting was of opinion that' the system was carried on to such an extent as to be becoming unendurable, and that a Government officer should be appointed to see the working men on Government contracts paid for work in cash. A large and influential local committee was appointed to carry out the object of the meeting. There was a heavy thunder and lightning storm last night. • The Kennedy is still bar-bound. The Gleaner is- in the roadstead from Melbourne. A monster indignation meeting has been held on tht Goldfieldi respecting the objections to oiun in

the Electoral Roll. Resolutions were passed condemning the Registration Officer for making frivolous objections. A deputation was appointed to attend the Revision Court, and to obtain legal assistance to uphold the claims. [Anglo-Austbaliait Pbess Telegeaph Agenox.J Wellington-, May 14. Only £300 worth of debentures of proposed quarter of a million loan has been taken up at minimum, namely £90 10a. May 15. Mr. Vogel, at the opening of the tenders for the Government debentures yesterday, said that it was a favorable sign that capital was invested otherwise than in Government debentures. Should four per cent nob be taken in Australia, they will be allowed to remain on the market, or be placed in the London market if the competition of the Australian Government renders them unsaleable. The Independent condemns the indignation meeting at the Thames regarding the murder. The Gazette further prorogues Parliament to the sth June. The following are amounts of the tenders for the Brunner railway : — Accepted : W. Hungerford, Hokitika, £22,855 9s. Id. Declined: Wm. Strachan, Wellington, £24,230 2s. 6d.; Edward B. Garvin, Greymouth, £27,751 83. 3d.; James Hamilton and Co., Hokitika, £28,206 ; Cassidy and Clarke, Hokitika £28,328 lls. 9d.; W. M. Hooper, Greymouth, £21,692 6s. Bd.; George Trennery, Greymouth, £28,800 j Owen Jones and Co., Auckland, £33,600. Dctnedin, May 14. Stone and Brogan'a claim at Cromwell is estimated to yield ten ounces to the ton. The gold escort for the month is 11,630 ounces. I ' Attckxand, May 14. Rewi's brother at the Taupo meeting said that the murder was only percursory of a general aggression. He asserted that 500 Ngapuhis could be got, together with their own arms, to break up the King party. A monster meeting at Grahamstown, at which 1000 were present, denounced the pacification policy, as only tending to prolong the difficulty, and insisted on the immediate overthrow of the Maori King.