LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1779, 14 June 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, June 13. Notwithstanding that this forenoon it was definitely decided that even if Atkinson were too unwell to deliver his Financial Statement it would be read for him by another Minister, about four this afternoon Ministers resolved to postpone it. until Friday, with probably a further postponement. The secietof the whole thing is said to be dissension in the Cabinet as to what course to pursue in regard to the loan. A deputation (hat waited on Government to-day elicited from Atkinson the important statement that, whatever the amount of the propos d loan, it would be placed on the London money market on the distinct pledge that it would be applied to certain specified public works, and to no other. The credit of the colony would be pledged to the specified application of the loan, and also not to borrow further for a term of years. Timaru, .Tune 13. The half-yearly criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened to-day before Judge Williams, The following is the calendar: —John Sullivan, placing stones on the railway line; John Thomas Healey, forgery and uttering (six counts); Charles Heatty, horse-stealing; Frank Wellsman, embezzlement; Mark Bishop, rape; Thomas Christie, forgery and uttering; Edward Ford and Frederick Cullamore, larceny. Wanganui, June 12. Two men named J, Williamson and Win. Higgins were committed for trial on separate charges of robbery from the person. Dunedin, June 14, Te Whiti and Tohu visited the Maori kaik on Saturday, and were received cordially by the natives. Subsequently Charles Wesley, a well-known chief, took them severely to task for their past conduct. Te Whiti made no reply, but Tohu said he and Te Whiti were dead to all intents and purposes, and nothing said to them now could be of any avail. They did not seem discontented. Owing to the heavy sea on the bai yesterday the barque Mataura had to postpone her departure till today. She takes 3884 sheep, besides a small quantity of beef and a few barracouta, ducks, hares, die., in her freezing chambers. Also a small lot of butter, cheese, and ham«. Early on Saturday morning an engine and van on the Walton Park branch railway line were thrown off by a horse on the line. The animal was cut in two. The van went over the embank ment, but the engine was got on again without much difficulty. Auckland, June 13. An inquest was held on the body of the late W. Wheeler, manager of the Working Men’s Club, who died from injuries sustained while ejecting a man named Ifackett, by leqnest, from the dub room. The verdict was “accidental death.” The Coroner severely reprimanded Hackett for being under the influence of liquor, which necessitated Wheeler putting him out. and which led to the latter’s accidental death. The Auckland Lcensed Victuallers’

Association have determined to draw up for transmission to Parliament a series of suggestions and proposed amendments ou the working of the new Licensing Act. The race between the Flora, a Tahitian schooner, and the Rita, resulted in the former being signally defeated. Bennett, an absconding debtor from Christchurch, was arrested on arrival by the Rotomahana. He Was brought up this afternoon at the Police Court, and remanded to Christchurch ; and on his being searched it was found he had assumed a false name on the voyage, and erased the name of Bennett from his boxes.

THE GOLDFIELDS DEPUTATION’S RECOMMENDATIONS, Wellington, June 12. The following is the report of the Goldfields’ Sub-Committee, as amended, in full, which the Committee adopted and forwarded to the Minister of Mines

“ Prospecting should be encouraged by grants in aid upon capital invested on labor employed ; in the latter case, whether the prospecting party has a fund in hand or not. The working of inferior auriferous ground and of country requiring special cost of labor for its development should be encouraged by the granting of extended claims on easy terms, subject to equitable conditions as to capital invested and labor employed, so as to effectually check the locking-up (shepherding) of mining country. In addition to the construction of water-races and sludgechannels wholly undertaken by the Government, races and other works undertaken by private enterprise should. Under exceptional circumstances of difficulty, be subsidised by the State, and this whether such works are carried on by capital or labor, or by labor only. Sufficient sets of diamond drills with a supply of extra diamonds, to stand any test that may be known, afe required for the proper development of the goldfields. Separate sets should be provided for the Auckland, Westland and Otago goldfields. They should be placed at the disposal of the county councils for use within their respective districts. The remarks apply to rockboring apparatus. The cutting and formation of tracks on the goldfields should he wholly undertaken or liberally aided by the Government, especially in the case of newly discovered workings. The construction of roads to timber forests should also, when required, be wholly undertaken’ or 1 liberally aided by the Government. Lands knowd to be auriferous should he permanently reserved from sale, and land believed to lie auriferous should, on sufficient evidence, be temporarily reserved ; but provision should in respect of all such reserves be made for the temporary cultivation of the surface.”

Vincent Pyke, Richard John Seddon, Thomas S. Weston. The following recommendation of the above Committee was received : “ Quartz crushing machines of, say, two eight-stamper heads, should be provided for the testing of quartz lodes in districts wheie existing batteries are not available, by reason of distress or other causes, for prospecting purposes ; these, also, should be placed at the disposal of county councils as public custodians.”