WELLINGTON.

Evening Star, Issue 3934, 4 October 1875, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

[By Telegrafm.l tint our oio'' Correspondent.) Wellington, October 4. Conferences between the managers of the two Houses resulted in the Lords withdrawing their 01 »jxisition to clause 5 of iSlr Mervyn’s GoldfLl Us Biil. Land required on goldfields can now bo taken without delay on the payment of s6d per acre and compensation for fencing., since this Act will dso allow of the raking of laud on goldfields under the agricultural leasing system. The Wants Land diet has since been so materially altered and tb« 'Lords are so firm in their determination t<cv maintain the increased prices that Mr Macandrew will abandon that Bill. lb® "4. Z. ‘Times’ takes Mr Macandrew sevoirel] r to task for his laudation of Provincial railway construction in Otago, and in reference to has. denial that there was any foundation fop the ‘ TimesV strictures ?ays :— 4 If he will, go t the ‘ Daily Times’ and Evening Stab to nsdalit that certain leading articles of theirs weire wholly incorrect, and if he will get certai u r ports presented to the Otago Provincial Contr. Hand as yet unc mtrndic ed withdrawn am I pronounced erroneous, we shall only be too gL td to discard that portion of the evidence on w! iich we founded our atrh tures, and to rely *0 lely on that whh hj wo a- e prepared ourselves t(> »aductf.” On dit that Sir Julius Vogel wi I be brought ’forward to coutesr. the . lection for the Hutt against Mr iOUuerbert. The debate on the San Francisco ratification contact is poatpom d till u.-inonow to allow Mr Stafford lo move »v amendme. t permitting the Government's arranging for doing away with the coa*tal service, and adopting a service by which L15.00U yearly will be saved. Mr Macandrew strongly opposed it.