BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3437, 26 February 1874, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

_ Wellington, February 25. A Commission of Inquiry is to bo bjeia on board the steamer Mongol to-morrow, for the Surpose of ascertaining the cause of the isease which broke out onboard, and whether the people ill of fever were sent on board in England. Mr S. Locke has concluded the purchase of 62,000 acres of valuable Native land in and on behalf of this Province. It is the residue of sho Seyenty-lVfile Bush. NW PiC-YMQDTijt, February 25. The trout sent from ®tsgft all died on the passage. • ' '■ ' Oamaru, February 25. A fatal accident on the railway works near Oamaru occured yesterday. A young man l named Wessex was killed by a heavy fall of 1 earth, weighing about thirty tons. _ CRAHAM3TOWN, February 25. The Kailway Committee waited on the Superintendent this morning, respecting the Thames Valley Line. The Superintendent said he and the Executive were favorable to the construction of the line, and proposals would be submitted at the next meeting of the Council, authorising the Province to go to Parliament to borrow the requisite amount. The deputation was a large one. Afterwards, a Deep Sinking Drainage deputation waited on the Premier, and laid the plans and report of the proposed works before him. The question was fully ventilated. Mr Vogel made a lengthy reply, the tenor of which was favorable. But he thought such an application should bo made through the holder of delegated powers. If he approved of the works proposed, and the Government approved of a measure to supply the requisite assistance, it should then have Government support. Parliament, he Stated, would be acting discredit*

ably in allowing the Thames to languish for want of assistance in developing the low levels. He was opposed to subsidising works, and suggested the formation of reserve funds in dividend paying mines to meet future contingencies, 'ie recommended the deputation to make their proposals as simple as possible, and to take the same before the Superintendent as a preliminary step. Any advance made would have to be on the security of the mines benefited. Their proposal to meet the interest on the loan by an additional duty on gold would bo objectionable.