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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 12 July 1880, Page 2

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— ♦-r : — [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [PKB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Eussell, July 7. Arrived— Rotortw, from Sydney. She brings further details of the Kelly tragedy: ' It has been ascertained that Cherry, the platelayer, was killed by Ned Kelly ] because he would not pull down the 1 window blinds of the hotel to prevent i the police seeing him. Thirty persons < were shut in with the gang at the outset : of the siege, but the police fired reck* lessly into the house, volley, after voljey. I Ultimately these Vere let Jtak < the Kellys, who sfiljvstuck to the buifS- \ ing, and the police, capful vof their osn ( lives, never ventured to risk tb.cmselve s t

outside of shelter ot"trces and otherfprotoction until all the buj|djnjj was in flames and the outlaws dead. At the funeral there was intense excitement. The procession wbp met by .a great crowd of sympathisers, m.f.ny of them armed. Dick^Hart; .brother of deceased, dared the; poH?P to^ibucli the bodies, and many sympathisers, inflamed with drink, professed themselves anxious for a brush with the police. Dick Hart, standing by the fide of his brother's corpse, and in the presence of Kale Kelly raised his hand to Heaven, and sworejlo 'be avenged. A threat was also made to roast the constables as the outlaws were roosjed, Bumors are" rife that Will Wright and Dick Hart threaten to take to the bush with a strong force and wreak vengeance for the death of their'jcomrades, • <;• ■■"■■■ 1. •• ! WELLiNGTojr, July 8. . The House met at 2 30. . ; Mr M'Caughan" gave*"notice that he would move that the next session of the Assembly meet at Christ church, and that an address be presented to the Go* vernor praying him to place a, sum of £20 000 on"! he estimates tof defray the cost securing the necessary accommodation- . ' : ' " Replying to Sir W. Fox,' Mr Oliver said tbat(fan"" ogrpement'jwaslpiade with Mr Conyers. Middle Railway L r ommissioner,"byjthe"lnte Government in 1877, that ho should receive £900 a year, and if the workings of the lines proved satisfactory he was to receive a bctau's- of- £500., East year the bonus was paid on the authority of the then Government* : Sir William Fox pave notice he would move for the of the correspondence between Mr Conyers and the Government' relative to the payment of a bonus of £500.; „■• . The following Bills were introduced and read a first time — Peace Preservation, (Bryce) ; liocal Public Works Rat ing Act, 1879, Amendment, (Alkinson.) Mr De Latoiir moved— -' That it is desirable that Government workshops should be made available Tor boys receiving instruction for half time at one or more of the primary or secondary schools in their neighborhood ; thnt primary or secondary pchools, or some of them, which may be so situated as to enable boys receiving instruction therein to at* tend half time at auy Government workshop, should be organised with a view of engrafting practical instruction upon the educational system at present by law carried out thereat.' In a country like this, where apprenticeship was a difficulty, a great deal 6f inconvenience and difficulty was occasioned to parents as to what to do with their boys. Mr Rolleston agreed with much that had been stated, as it Entirely coincided with his view's! -It was V subject which the Government considered well worthy their attention; f .. •-■ Mr Montgomery ngreed that their Slate education should 'not be allowed to remain where it was. Mr Macandrew acquiesced. He thought the Government printing office should be utilised in this way, A great many youths might be trained there. Mr Murray acknowledged the motion to be the introduction of °a great principle. The principle might, dp extended to adults, thereby enabling operative classes to do their work with more efßeiency. Mr Thompson said they should endeavor to induce the rising generation to take an interest in trades and manufactures, and Ibis was a step in the right direction. Hitherto the tendency had been to get lads into shops and offices, the result being that these paths of life were too much crowded. The motion was put and carried. Mr Reeves moved_that there be laid before the House a returning showing the number of breweries in ftew Zea land ; the number of barrels brewed by the several breweries, and the description of material u«ed in brewing, as provided for in ' The Distillation Act, 1868.'— Carried, Mr Hutchison moved the second reads ing of the Chinese Immigration Bill, The Bill did not propose to interfere with the Chinamen already in the Colony. All it designed was to prohibit further immigration to the Colony. Sir George Grey seconded the motion , ! . Dv Wallis said this Bill .concerned one third of the human race. He en* tirely disagreed with the Bill. He would support a measure to restrict the number of Chinese imported to the Colony, but the Bill before the House proposed an entire prohibition. This was an adaptation of a protective sys» tern which bad its origin in America; He would not like to see the country flooded with Chinese, but it was absurd to ask them to cut off all intercomtnuni* cation with a third of the human race. Chinese, as a class, were a hafU works ing, industrious race, and as servants they were much more obliging than Europeans. He argued at considerable length that the Chinese as a race were in many respects more sober and( practical. He would move the Bill be road lhat day six months. Mr Hall agreed with the last speaker' that it was undesirable to flood the country with Chinese. The way to deal with the question was to wait until the Chinese had attained a certain number, and then apply restrictions. The

Chinese population was actually decreasing in the Colony. Mr Bowen spcke against the Bill. Colonel Trimble protested against the principle of the Bill. No countr.v could prosper that prevented free immigration •to its shores. Mr Re : .d took a. much more moderate view. They conld do with a few more Chinamen in the Colony. On the West Coast there was an opening for a fenhundred. They would be able, without incerfering nith anyone, to make £2 per week. Major Te Wheoro spoke against the Bill. The Maoris said there was no evil in the Chinese. Mr Reeves contended that Chinamen wrre not desirable colonists in any sense of the word. They had no moral sense, and when they were isolated from the.worid, working in some back gully, they had the opportunity for practicing- their demoralisation. He would support the Bill, although he had no hopes it would carried. The motion waa'pufc and "carried.