BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4092, 7 April 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

- . . Wellington, April 6. The Customs revenue collected to-dav amounted to L 3.680, being the largest amount ever collected in one day at Weilington. An order in Conned fixes the next sitting of the Court of Appeal for 28th May next Mr Clement William Govett has been gazetted Assistant Law Officer to the Government of the Colony. 4/ The following notice appears in the ‘Gazette, re tenders for Banking business- —“ In order to secure both parties the continuance for one year certain of any agreement entered into, the following is to be wad in place of the introductory paragraph to the conditions published in the * Gazette ’ MaroL 1875;—‘Any agreement entered into to be terminable by either party at any time on six calendar months’ notice given to the other, but no such notice shall be given until the expiration of six calendar months from the date of taking over the Government accounts.’”

mu n . Tauranoa, April 6. Ihe Governor arrived to-day in the Luna. He was met by the principal residents. He drove to the Gate Pah and the Cemetery No landing could be effected at White Island owing to the heavy swell. ■

™. , ~ _ Alexandra, April 6. Wimata, the Epsom murderer, is still residing at Kmta. The Ngatimanipptos are in accord with the Waikatos, and will not give him np. There are now some forty murderers and accomplices at Kuiti and vicinity.

. -o , Hokitika, April 6. Bevan, and l? prospectors of the Rangitoto silver mine, have resolved to form a joint stock company to work the mine.

_ _ Lyttelton, April 6. _ The Lumpers* Society men struck work today for two shillings an hour, and to be paid for the whole day in the event of working only a portion thereof. The stevedores have '" engaged other hands.

T , Auckland, Aprils. Gilhea yesterday refused Mr Ueskeui s application for a special jury in the Pitt bribery case, the trial of which is set down for Friday. All the criminal cases nave been disposed of. “Vox Populi,” in a letter to the ‘Herald ’ suggests that a meeting should be called to express the opinion of Auckland on the conduct of the Premier. The master of the Quarantine Station reports, in reference to H.M.S. Pearl, that all the crew were in good health. The Health Board has resolved that the ship be adnutted to pratique’at once. *l.® George Grey has addressed a letter to I./ 0 j P* Pollen on the position of Auck-mo«+an^ruie*ai^ttl-(ie °* General Govemuiz. xv foUowin g is the concluding half: P re f they (the Provinces) £3*. ***. their hands the power of obtaining ' < x respects as a condition precedmjt to their relinquishing rights whiok the You must rememtm that their revenues are raised for them-

selves, and are their own, and that the General Assembly has been authorised to raise those revenues for certain specific purposes and to carry on the Constitution established, under which and for the support of which these revenues have beeu raised. If abolished, their revenues would necessarily appear to become the property of the people here, and it will be for themselves, and not for the Parliament, constituted to cany out a totally different Constitution to which the people of this’ Province may not have assented, to receive, and to expend those revenues. You will see, therefore, how necessary it is that the inhabitants of this Province should after they have been informed of the precise nature of the new Constitution which it is intended to impose upon them, give their intelligent assent to it before they relinquish the great liberties they now enjoy. If you will not agreeto appropriations out of the revenue • Province being openly appropriated, retrain from making any recommendations tor appropriation of such revenue. The tome has now come when the people of these Provinces must accustom themselves to make pecuniary sacrifices for great public principles. A habit of taking what can be got for fear of suffering loss, rather than the system of refusing anything but what is lawful and right, has led to great losses to the Province of Auckland. We must therefoiJL we will have what we are entitled to by law and constitutional principles ; wewill have nothing else, and we will take it in n 6 other way. It will be only a small pecuniary sacrifice to aid in opposing the secretly appropriating of the least portion of revenue taken from us by taxation. From apparently small sacrifice of principle, a constantly repeated system mav be established which would render it eusy to plunder and deeply injure the interests of people. I consider that in advising the people to part with lawful and constitutional rights in order to secure an expenditure of public money, I should act wrongly, as if I advised a man to accept a rwij T° n con( htion of neglecting his duty. i«tt I accept an appropriation of public money on the conditions you offer, I believe, from the dealings which have already taken place that probably the money obtained would not be expended until after a longer delay than will occur from the course I intend to pursue. But, whether this may be the case or not, I believe the whole Produce will support me in the course I have thought it my duty to pursue, and that the very men who may temporarily suffer from want of they may have hoped to gain, SrJSSjE de r ai to inconvenience m support of a principle which they will JOT 6 aS and to™ 6* One will learn that there is pleasure in making sacrifices 0f pu , bKc ri S hts » and will hereafter value more dearly the privileges w by personal 6 a Colollia, seote(From our own Correspondent.)

« -n , Auckland, April 6. ■ Pearl was admitted to pratique this afternoon. H.M.S. Barracouta, Nymph, and Sappho are expected.