LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume VII, Issue 248, 12 October 1867, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

PARLIAMENT PROROGUED. [from our own correspondent.] "Wellington, Friday, 5 p.m. Parliament was prorogued yesterday, to the 30th December next. Ninety-four Acts have been assented to. Two have been reserved, the Divorce Bill and the Governor's Salary Bill. The Governor's speech is congratulatory on the valuable enactments for the consolidation of criminal and civil law. It says the liberal Maori Representation Act, and the endowment of native schools will tend to confirm the peaceful and frieudly dispositions which are everywhere spreading throughout the tribes recently in rebellion. The supplies will* be administered with economy as imperatively demanded. The measures' for improving the character of the public securities, in order to maintain the credit of the colony, not only in the money market, but wherever there is development of popular Government, lias been watched with interest. The adjustment of Surplus Revenue accounts and the relief of northern provinces from a portion o f the war lo'au charged against them, will remove causes of irritation which tended to alienate important portions of the colony from the idea of national unity. Although you have been unable to provide a general measure of local self-government, the claims (if outlying districts to powers so essential to

nourish a spirit of liberty and self-reliance have not been neglected, and I have gladly assented to the Bills for conferring such privileges, with a fair share of the local revenues, on the districts of "Westland and of Timaru and Gladstone. I have every reason to believe that the depression uuder which important parts of the colony labour has reached the lowest point, and that with the establishment of peace, the opening of the northern districts for settlement, and the continued increasing development of rich goldiields in both islands, a fresh tide of prosperity will have set in when yon are next called, together, and it will be found that these favored islands have entered a career of permanent progress which internal troubles will not again interrupt. The speech ends with a request to members to facilitate the administration of the measures passed. ■ Nearly all the members have left. The prorogation was loyally attended. DtTSEDnr, Friday 1 p.m. In the Resident Magistrate's Court, Alfred Cook has been charged with murderously assaulting John Clcary with intent to rob. The prisoner has been sent to the Supreme Co\u't for trial. 'Die Tartirua has arrived with the members of the Assembly.