BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3852, 29 June 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, June 29. The Government will introduce early in the session a Bill for the consolidation and amendment of the present Stamp Duties Act. Although the revenue will not he affected by this measure, it will, it is believed, simplify the collection of the duties, and at the same time facilitate the transaction of business. It is understood that the several banks in the Colony have entered into an arrangement which binds them to adopt uniform rates of interest, discount, &o.

_ _ . Auckland, June 28. Ine Superintendent has takeu legal advice T6 the right of the General Government to charge interest on railways against the capita“p®* The opinion of Mr W, G. Rees says the interest can only be deducted from the land fund, and that the action of the Government in holding back the capitation is illegal. The dates on the deeds re Tairua, were erroneously published. The deeds conveying timber and other rights to Secombe bear date of 6th December; the sale of Government rights the 7th December, 1872. _At a meeting of the Intercolonial Cricket Committee, held this afternoon, Mr Rice, secretary, read correspondence re the Australian visit. He stated he had sent a reply to Mr Meares, of Dunedin, that Auckland would guarantee about L 165 towards the expenses. The Committee passed the following resolutions: “ That the match should be played at EJlerslie, provided the Auckland Cricket Club give the.eround on reasonable terms ” “ That the match, New Zealand v, Australia, should be played at Auckland.” “ That subscriptions be collected towards defraying expenses at once.” . {From our own Correspondents.)

__ . Auckland, June 28. xii 6 btar to-mght says:—scarcely venture to hope that we shall survive the ternhle denunciation levelled at us by “ 1 he (itago Typographical Association,” yet, even in these melancholy circumstances we hazard a few words in reply to our “ bitter hostility to the craftsmen who assisted us* to attain our prt sent position.” It has long been our distinguishing characteristic, and most members of the craft who assisted at the issue of our earliest sheets from our press still remain with us, and their patience has been exemplary.. The printers of Otago say that by our “contemptible manner we have compelled most of the respectable printers of Auckland to. go elsewhere, ’ meaning, we presume, that the last batch of printers, whom, after threatening to gobble us up for danng to teach girls to set type, we compelled to beat a hasty retreat to the south. Ji Southerners regard those as beinomost respectable printers of Auckland” we don’t wonder at their thinking that only the scum of the printing profession ” are here. We don’t exactly understand what this cultivated secretary of a liberal profession means by ‘the scum vegetating;” possibly the scum vegetate in Dunedin, but we never heard of such a thing before. However, when he says, that “ the scum of the printing profession who vegetate in and around Auckland are beyond redemption, and their vitiated atmosphere would only contaminate the respectable class of printers who reside further South,” we take it that he means that the respectable printers there are already being polluted by contact with the last lot we sent. We don’t wonder at this, and are sorry for the respectable printers there; but what could we do? We must shoot our rubbish somewhere, and the South of New Zealand is as good as anywhere else for our purposes. The respectable printers were in the same way contaminated by “ viti ated atmosphere,” but we are happy to state that the offices here are quite healthy now. We don t wonder, judging from what we have swept out from here, that amongst Southerners Auckland must have “been regarded as the yery sink of typographical iniquity,” but we can assure our Southern friends that the character of the place is wholly changed, and that the o&ces of ourtwocontemporaries and onr own are now filled with as respectable and worthy a lot of fellows as are to he found in the Colonies People don’t judge of the] health of the people by what they see m an hospital ; nor would it he fair to estimate the cleanliness of our citiz *ns by sniffing the odors of city sewers; and so we trust our respectable friends, and respectable printers in the south will either give our printing social circle credit for having got rid of what has seemmgly proved an offence in their own iwjstnls. In conclusion we trust that the respectable Southern printers will keep what we hare sent them, and endeavor to lead our exiles to habits of quiet industry instead of trying to crafts BpoDgUlg on gOGd nature of the Tn n, Tj • ~ « Napier, June 28. In the Provincial Council Mr Smith introduced a Bill constituting a Harbor Board. The Superintendent bitterly opposed its introduction, deprecating the control of the harbor being taken from the Council. The Bill was however read a first time. The ‘ Telearanh ’ supports the Bill, and says a glance ft the ly £apPy-go-lm:ky, slipshod methods of bungling through anyhow all point to the need of reform in havbor administration, and accounts for the apathy ot the mercantile community m matters of fact that it has not been increased from outside for fifteen years, consequently they are blind to the defects of the present system. The article points to the waste mismanagement, and loss to the new moorwea, only lately imported at a cost of L7OO. The Telegraph laughs at the idea of the Council managing anything at all, and refers to tafflllC 0 Mr Ormond