LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1671, 26 June 1875, Page 3

LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON.

(From our own Correspondent.) This day.

The "Times'" Reply to the "Post." The Times yesterday morning combats last night's article in the Post, though, it is generally referred to as " a local print," and accuses the writer of a brazen regardlessness of facts ; and after stating what it considers to be the true relation of the state of the case as between the General and Provincial Governments, it says:—"The statement that the claim, made upon the Provincial ■Government was to recoup losses on the working of the line, betrays inexcusable ■ignorance or a deliberate intention to j.nflnence public opinion by mis-statements Some provinces clamour for railways and railway expenditure and are ready to fi nd fault with delay in their constrcution, w ifch their management, with all and everything in connection with them, including the demand for payment for them. Somebody however must pay, and the law at present saya the provinces shall." Interest on Railways. The Post, last night, returns to the charge against the Times about interest on railways, and practically says the Times is telling a flam. The Tribune sticks to it that the Post has the wrong end of the stick altogether. Each paper gives a different explanation of the matter in dispute, aud each, of course, is positive the other is wrong. Dodging for a Berth. "When the Wellington cleared out from the ■wharf to-day, the Easby was steaming up the bay, and Captain Kennedy reckoned upon occupying the vacated berth, and [the one usually occupied by the Easby, -when, lo ! there lay the Luna, with steam up, close by, and she quietly slipped in instead, completely selling the shipping reporters and everybody else just waiting to board the huge collier, and wern't they mad. Those who wanted to go on board particularly had therefore to take watermen's boats ; there was a good deal of chagrin on the wharf at so sharp a trick from Fairchild. The ps. Luna. The Luna sailed Worth at six this evening She has a locomotive on board for Wanganui, and goes afterwards to Taianaki. I believe, though her movements are not certain, beyond Wanganui.

Ministers Consider Themselves Safe. The friends of the Ministry express a quiet confidence of their ability to repel all assaults of the opposition, so long as no disaffection occurs in the camp.