LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 2043, 24 September 1874, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

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Auckland, Sept. 24. The Victoria has/ arrived from Sydney, with London dates to Sept. 15, and Australian to Sept. 17

WeiililNgton, Sept 24,

Messrs Pearce and Hunter addressed their constituents laat night. Both were ; well received. Mr Pearce said he never was a warm provincialist, but was confident that the abolition of Provincialism would not necessarily reduce taxation. Whatever good Provincial institutions did in the past he thought the time had gone by ( for rendering them necessary .^ He-held himself thoroughly free to vote for the Gdverhmeht Bill when it was brought down. Mr Hunter, while holding very decided views against the abolition of the provinces, said he would also give any measure brought down for that objeot most careful consideration, and if convinced the Government proposals were animprovem'ent on the Provincial system,; he would support the change. He did not consider the colony had reached the extent of its borrowing power so long as the revenue increased. He paid a high compliment to Mr Yogel in befriending Wellington. He considered the question of the compaot of 1856 an unimportant matter, as in a few years the North Island would have a far more valuable landed estate than the South. Voteß of thanks were given to both Messrs Pearce and Hunter.

Dunedin, Sept. 24. His Honor Mr Justice Chapman gave judg-to-day in the Guardian contempt of Court case. He said if the artiole complained of had ended with its primary objeot of advocating the expediency of preserving the inviolability of the telegraph there would have been no occasion for a rule. But it went beyond that. Its general tone was studiously subdued, but that tone waß condemnatory of the plaintiff's proceedings ; therefore, in his opinion, it had the tendency imputed to it though not so strong as to evince a depraved intention. If he had thought this case came within the more gross and reprehensible clause, he would probably have considered a fine a proper mode of dealing with it; but although he did not consider it bo, he thought it was not excusable. He had decided that the usual consequence aB to coats would be a sufficient vindication of the law, and, above all, as a sufficient warning that the Court would not sanction any writing put forward pending on action which reflects, however cautiously, upon the proceedings of the parties to an action or of their solicitor or counsel. The rule was made absolute, with costs.