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[peh qbeville's tel. co , eeuteb's agents.] Greytown, Saturday. Hastwcll'B coach capsized down a gully at two o'clock this afternoon, half a mile on the other side of the Rimutaka. The horses shied, and the coach was smashed to pieces. There were five passengers in the coach, but they were not much injured. Hokitika, Saturday. The Gothenburg arrived from Nelson on the night of the 29th, and sailed on the 80th for Melbourne, Sir William Stawell was a passenger. The Zephyr, barque, from Melbourne, after being twenty-four days in the roadstead, attempted to get in yesterday in tow of the Lioness, but got ashore on the North Spit. She is now being discharged, and is expected to be got off to-morrow. The crew is safe. There is a heavy sea on. The Prosperity, for Melbourne, has I been detained seven days in the roadstead. Dunedtn, Sunday. In Reicheld's trial for arson, the jury, after an absence of three and a half
hours, returned into Court at eleven o'clock last night with a verdict of not guilty. Chkistchurch, Friday. A public meeting was held last nighr, attended by 150 persons. DrTurabull moved, and the Provincial Secretary seconded, the following resolution.: — " That in the opinion of this meeting the colonisation of the country cannot be successfully conducted either by the Colonial or Provincial Governments as at present constituted, and it is expedient that the Colonial and Provincial Governments throughout the colony shall forthwith be abolished, and a representative body, with defined independent powers, be constituted in each island, such representative body to have the sole power of controlling and conducting affairs within the island it represents in respect to departments, lands, works, immigration, and appropriating or applying any revenue or lands othgrihan consolidated revenue, as defineaby the Public Revenues Act, and that a Federal Government be established \vitffitewA*d legislative powers to have control over federal concerns." Messrs Montgomery and Stevens addressed the meeting, and characterised the Brogden contract as an enormity. The resolution was carried. A public meeting is to be held to consider the contract. Christchurch, Saturday. An inquest has been held on the body of Mr Joseph Bailley, the wellknown Christchurch builder. A verdict of died from natural causes was returned.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3308, 2 October 1871, Page 2
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