BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3402, 16 January 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

A Government * Gazette ’• to-day gives the following under the'lieading ‘‘Port Chalmers,’’ tenders for railway aieepeis-:*- T» PpUajdi Dutiedini,; 10,000/ at 3s;3dKmll and Wellington,; all-jurtah,; 46,000i«t 4s 3dt ./ ‘ The Erqyjppial; ~Cft\mpilj.,. this ~afternoon, ,the,.city.; ,;,'r ; ; a0 in consequence' of. an imfayoVable reply the Government to thd fneSugafrefioing a bonus or drawback, the directors hayeTesolydd‘hot: to.-proceed niyfcner until it iai 'atfcertiihed' udiat' eitcouiagement the Asaembly.isjyreparedto .offer to favor this ;;newi industry. ■ v .;o i eu <j ■n tb 1 ',vr \2i T ->. ~ New Plymouth, January 15, i commenced; There’is', nptf sp, [ much wheatyrodn ftihvidus years. ’ 1 /■MIeH T,n ■ •■■:■■■: i - ;i \ y. j! | AtJOKI/AND,’Jahuaiy 16. u; : _ *.“ e . Governor Blaokall- has sailed with the \ a b£onuanjmail.and!eight passengers^c :uio',s i ~.F Moriarty, the Sydney Government engiiiißer^reported in- favor,of the, construcitionbna 1 dooki!capabldloLaccommodating ithe pan i) rauciac° steamers, on aedtef wfest of the 1 Qbeen street. Wharf Theeligibility of the site ;eyokesij»uoh.discussion,.....: I. The Imcrease the Supermtehdent’s salary from LBOO |toLl,ooo. . ■> I The Government has ’announced an intention |of obtaining <¥■* thoroughly: competent railway 'manager) and that a salary of JLBOO' or Ll,ooo [a year might have to be given. 1 Advices by cablegram,yesterday reached the jNew Zealand ajpppu^ n oomp9,ay- that the defmand for emigrant passages had largely in-

free nomination agent of the Conj~panyinLondon r owing to the-soaroity-of- ships, has arranged with the Albion Shipping Coni. pany and Shaw, Savill, and Co., to convey some of the immigrants to New Zealand. Thfe Shipping Company despatched during December eight ships, including the Mongol, expected alone to carry 700 emigrants. | Oamabo, January 15. i Harvest having scarcely commenced yet, a number of men, lately arrived, have not yeit found employment. A meeting was held today by 150 of them, at which resolutions were passed petitioning the Superintendent not to discontinue public works, and animadverting on statements made as to the demand for labor The only cause of temporary want of employment is that a large portion of the crops will bg two or three weeks yet before they are ready for getting in. I