LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1176, 6 May 1872, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[from our own correspondent.] Nelson, May 3. The representatives of the West Coast, Messrs Kynnersley, O'Conor, and Guinness, have up to the present time been conspicuous by their absence. The Superintendent, in his opening speech, said that the revenue from the gold fields had fallen off by L3OOO. The revenue from all sources amounted to L70',000, and tlte expenditure to L 68,000. The remaining L2OOO has been devoted to reducing the Provincial overdraft. The Superintendent has promised to introduce a Bill to empower him to grant land in payment of the construction of a dray road between the Arnold and the Ahaura, and it is expected that a rate will be passed for the same purpose. A sum has also been placed oh the Estimates for the construction of a stock road between the Ahaura and the'Amuri. Steps will be taken, with the assent of the Assembly, to make a special settlement in the Buller Valley, and a road towards Nelson. Five thousand acres have already been surveyed for sale at the Inangahua, and five thousand acres more are to be surveyed, The Inangahua is to be represented in the Provincial Council. The principle of special settlement to be also applied, to Grey Valley under the Immigration and Public Works Act, with the modification that any land set apart shall be open to residents of the Colony as well as immigrants. An agreement between his Honor and the General Government as to the Brunner mine aud railway to be submitted to the Council for approval, but the nature of agreement was not stated. <