The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 592, 20 August 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1878.

Telegrams for the Australian colonies, via Russell ana Sydney, per Rotorua, will be received at Kumara Telegraph Station up till 12 noon to-morrow, Wednesday.

The meeting of the Committee of the Prospecting Association, which was to have taken place last evening was postponed until this afternoon. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. A telegram has been received by the Association from Mr Barff, M.H.R., st;ding that he lias taken the necessary action to procure the Government aid for the Association, and that he anticipated a favourable result.

It will be seen by advertisement that the drawing of tho Albion Sweep on the Metropolitan Stakes will take place at Greymouth on Friday next. Those desirous of investing should make an early call at Gilbert Stewart's, as there are but few tickets remaining. At the public meeting hold in Christchurch relative to the desirability of a railway via Amberley to the Coast, we extract the following remarks made by some of the speakers theron, from our exchanges ; —As to the advantages of the line, they could exchange their grain, butter, bacon and other agricultural produce for the coal and timber of the West Coast. ±,100,000 per annum was spent in Canterbury for timber and coals. If the railway was constructed Canterbury would be once more intimately connected with

Westland. If Govsrnmont could b? induced to do this n rtional work, a large stream of commerce would be caused to flow, to tho benefit of Canterbury and of the West Coast. The lino from Otago would bo 110 miles long, through a mountainous district; and the large number ~,x bridges which would have 1 1 be built should debar Government from spending public money to such disadvantage. Although the gold escort for which the West Coast road w.is made never existed, that road had saved the East Coast from, bankruptcy, by opening a market for its produce. Cattle and sheep could be made to travel, but the great reason for a railway lay in tho fact that tho products which could be exchanged existed in enormous quantities, and must be transported. Some di.Terence of opinion exists as to the proper interpretation of the clause in the Land Act regarding tho quantity of land which a deferred payment selector is allowed to take up. The Secretary for Crown Lands, Wellington, has written to the Chief Commissioner of the Otago Waste Lands Board stating that it will meet with the approval of the Government if the Board would, wherever it is deemed necessary, consider two or more contiguous sections as one allotment, so long as the aggregate does not exceed 320 acres in rural lands, and 20 acres of suburban land.

At the present time San Francisco barley is being largely imported into Auckland. Not only so, but at the recent meeting of brewers in Dunedin, one gentleman stated that he had ordered 10,000 bushels of barley from San Francisco, as it could be I.aided there at nearly is per bushel loss than Otago grown barley could be purchased. Maize is largely used in the north for horse-feed, tr is true, as Mr Ballanco stated, that tho duty on imported flour and grain was at present a mere bagatelle. The result of the abolition of the duty, however, will in all probability tend to deluge the Colony with American and Australian grain, ami seriously affect tae welfare of Colonial growers of wheat, barley, and oars.

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