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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 315, 14 November 1879, Page 2

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(PEE PKBSS AGENOY.) WELLINGTON. ■ Thursday. PARLIAMENTARY. George asked for areturn of the amount paid to each newspaper in the colony for Panting and advertising for the six years previous to September, 18J7. The Premier said it would take too "inch time, and unless the House ordered "t, did not, think it necessary. On the motion of De Latour it was ordered that in future no proofs of speeches l,e sent from the printing olhcc to tlm two Speakers and the members whose speeches are reported. He said it had heen the custom for some time past to send proofs to the Governor, and

ho wanted to stop the practice. The Premier said it might not be desirable to send out unrevised proofs, but there was nothing to prevent revised proofs going out.

The Government promised to bringdown »bill giving power to the Governineut to control theatrical performances.

A special committee was appointed to enquire into the public accounts, and a'so as to the best system to.be adopted by the Government for auditing-local body accounts,

It was resolved that on Wednesday nex »n address be presented to the Govern..

asking thut £SOOOOO be placed on the Estimates for roads and bridges in Ot go. Saunders' motion that each member lias twenty copies of Hansard placed .at his

disposal, was referred to the consider,! >f the Reporting Debates Committee, Interrupted by 5.30.

Mr George '1 Junius reports; Adelaidi * Hour, £JG, culmiial £l4; oats, 2s 9d; brar ' M i ivlluill > f,| wls', Us; maize, 6d j pollard, Gs j potatoes, per ton, -9s 10d I bacon, lOd; ham, 10$; cheesed; but ' tor, Sd. ( CHIIISTCHUiiCH. ' Thursday, ; The Dunedin telegraph department • k' ve uuderluken to inaugurate a complete J system of signal warning ou the Olutha liver. In future every telegraph station on the river will at midday give the siate of the river. AUCKLAND. 'J liursday. Mr F, McGinley was the winner of the silver cup and £2J, as the highest scorer ■it 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, and GOO yards fur the racing handicap. A netiiion signed by 160 unemployed, was sent to Mr Swanson, M.H.li., praying th.it the Government ivould commence works authorised in Auckland. Several boys have been punished at the Mice Court for throwing stones, one having severely cut another. The Oily Council has received from the Government a cheque for the amount „[ the half year's subsidy. Gibbon's sawmill at Otaua, near Wa iuk»> lias been destroyed by lire. The idea is exploded that the man Edward Shuttlecock, who was found seriously injured at Shellback Creek, Thames, had been hocussed. It seems that when proceeding home the worse for liquor, he fell over a cliff 60 feet, and broke some of bis limbs. A 111:111 George Williams, workthe bush near Ilelensville, was jammed between two trees, and seriously injured. He has since been brought into Auckland,

GRAHAMSTOWN. Wednesday.

The improvement in the Alburnia mine ci'n'nues. The present appearances lead

t') tlio bilief that the show will continue Mine time yet. During the Advertiser reporter's visit (his afternoon, a shot whs

lii'ed and 201b of excellent specimen were picked out. The stuff at the battery is shaping for a first-class return, from 3 cwt. of picked stone 1220zs of h-ml-equcozed amalgam have been ob

tainud, »iitl is expected tn pruduco at lea-1 aO.Ksi.fg.Jd. 'Hie yield of tho kafc day alone sij-pinixiiiisaecl to that aaiouut. The share market is still rising-buyers at 50 s , sellers at 52s (id. A t a meeting of the Liberal Association last night, a resolution was passed to ask Hie Government to bring the Maoris to justice and proceed will) the railway. The attendance consisted of twenty only. TIMARU. Wednesday, At the meeting of the unemployed held fo-day, it was resolved that the Government be petitioned to open up some public work in this district to afford employ"lent, and amongst other things to commence new railway buildings at once. HAWERA. Wednesday. A meeting was held here last Saturday, and a Committee appointed to urge upon the Government the settlement of the Waimato Plains, the completion of (lie railway from New Plymouth, the appoint. : nifint of a resident Clerk of the Court, mid

expressed at the Government keeping so large a body of men on the spot inactive, and it is certain that the Government

would meet with no opposition if they marched on the plains to-morrow. The country and crops are looking well. The gnus is abundant, and shearing has j||v commenced. TO» OAMABU. Wednesday. The man O'Brien, who was injured by the lining of a well falling on him while engaged clearing it out, died this afternoon in the hospital.