BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4119, 10 May 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(From our own Correspondent )

Napier, May 10. Mr Weber, Provincial Engineer, was appointed engineer to the Harbor Board to-day by a majority of one. The public are much dissatisfied at the result. A few members were absent who would have voted againt the motion. One member states privately that he gave his vote as Mr Weber was an old public servant, and as money was to be thrown into the sea through Mr Carruthers’s plan being adopted Mr Weber might as well have direction of it as anybody else, and would likely get rid of it quicker. The Natives who proceeded lately to Wellington to interview the Native Minister returned greatly disgusted. There was no one there to act in Sir Donald M‘Lean’s absence. They wished to dispose of valuable blocks of agricultural country. They state that unless the Government take off the restrictions to sell to private individuals, they will not dispose in future of one acre to the Government. A league is in course of formation with that object.

Queenstown, May 10. 102,000 acres of the cattle commonage were sold to-day for L 2,465, it being bought by the sheep owners. There was a spirited competition, and the average of the last sale was sustained.

Queenstown beat Arrow in the return rifle match by 132 points. The weather is favorable.

Mr G. Miller, Shotover, storekeeper, files a deed of composition with debts amounting to L 3,000. He pays 7a fid in the pound.