TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1275, 25 July 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent. ) Wellington, 23. The barque Oxford, with 820 Government immigrants, arrived yesterday. Typhoid fever broke out on the voyage and three deaths occurred from this cause. The passengers are all in quarantine.

The football match between Otago s and Wellington .was played here to-day, 1 and was. won by. the latter team, after i a grand contest. ..;... ;.-, . < : ' i An important meeting of the Cabinet ( took place at rid.6ti to-day* ax, which it was decided what measures the Government' would perso'vere with this session.' It is said that these includes th c Bankruptcy Bill, Local Courts Bill, Bills of Exchange Bill, Married Womens Property Bill, Sheriffs Bill, Fisheries Bill, Adulteration Prevention Act .Amendment Bill, Savings Banks Bill, Affirmation and Declarations Bill, Bills of Native Policy, and a few other measures. Tt would thus appear that the weeks of the session are already numbered. There was an •' extra sitting " of the House last night, commencing at halfpast seven o'clock. The first business consisted of the second reading of the Contempt of Court Bill. . %?Jfrraoviug <Jjg,e jgecejn^k rea^ng Mr Tole brieij^xpiained the scope oFlfte { measure, as already published. # He said in introducing tins "fexil he hoped he was not unnecessarily limiting the powers of the Judges, or uselessly im paring the legitimate powers of the I Press with^preseryation of impartiality with the principle of the Bill. Tho Minister' of Justice said he entirely agreed, but he asked Mr Tole unless there was any pressing reason for the Bill to be made law during the present session, whether it would not be desirable to content himself with affirming the principle by the House passing the second reading, inasmch, as a Bill of this kind was. before the Imperial Legislature and it would be wise to see the fate of that measure previous to, legislation on the subject in this Colony. Sir George Grey thought the time had come when we should walk alone and pass our own Bills without waiting to see the result of similar legislation in the Old Country. The second reading was then agreed to. ... Sir George Grey moved the second reading of the Charitable gifts Duties Exemption Bill. The objebt of which he said was to encourage people to make charitable bequests to the nation by relieving them from burdens they would otherwise have to undertake. After some important discussion, in which Messrs Schfimski, Swanson, and Holmes- - took part, Sir George Grey briefly ""replied, and the second reading of the Bm was agreed to ofc the voices. ] The House then went into Com- ; mittee on the School Committees Election Bill. Mr Stuart. . After the Bill had been slightly amended in one or two respects, it was reported as amended, and the House then rose. July 24. In the House of Bepresentatives two petitions were presented by Mr Bryce and Mr Sheehan respectively, against the passing of the New Zealand Native Lands Settlement Erapowering Bill, the second reading of which was the first business on the Order Paper. When the matter was called on the Colonial Treasurer reminded the promoter (Mr DeLatour) of his promise last week not to persevere with the Bill if, after a week's adjournment of the second reading, the Government decide to oppose it. The Government, he said, had carefully considered the matter, and had come to the conclusion that, looking to all the circumstances of the case, it would not be desirable for the Bill to proceed further. He hoped, therefore, that Mr DeLatour would now" see* 'his way to withdraw the Bill. • ; r Mr DeLatour said : As I always like to keep my word I beg to move that the order be discharged. The Bill accordingly was withdrawn. ; Sir George Grey is to say to-night when the House meets at 7*30 whether he is prepared to move his motion of censure on the (Government for not initiating a Land Tax. Patea, 24. A woman named Peterson and a man named Clarke were drowned off" the bar last night. They had been fishing, and it is supposed that in attempting to cross the bar the boat capsized. Chiustchurch, 28. George Frederick Smith, of Southbridge, has applied to the Government for the reward for the discovery of a payable goldfield in Canterbury. It was he who submitted samples of wash to Mr Skey. The field extends along the Ninety-Mile Beach, from the Eakia Eiver, and an auriferous layer of sand may be traced both north and south of the river for more than sixteen miles between high and low water mark. The depth of the workable sand ranges from Bin. to Bft., the average depth being Bin. Mr Smith estimates the yield at £8 a man a week. He has found a second deposit of equally rich

sand, extending from the beach along the western shore of Lake Ellesmere, for a distance of two or three miles. Some' claims * haye r 'been 'p^gg&l" out '. . each man takirig'a length at 90ft. Four men have taken up leases, ten acres, and are prospecting near the Ninety-Mile B«ach and Taramutu.