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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 169, 20 July 1870, Page 2

Mining SHA_EsJ-4-Mr Hi J. L. ' Augarde quotes Lucky Hit-shares, £7 10s paid, oneeighth of a share. Bl^3 15s. Business dove this day;- .. • --• r \:..] The Railway.-— lt. appears that a further delay has taken place in the signing of the railway contract, owing to the absence .of Mr. Brogden's solicitor, from town. Weshalt--publish to-morrow the whole correspondence received -by tl^o mail. '*' . ; . ; ' '."' ' Me. Curtis on- the ; 'B_b'G__..A- 'Mr. Curtis addressed the "House yesterday afternoon on the_ financial question, and offered to- support, a loan of onemillio'n and possibly 1 ,twoj- beyond /the amount ialrVady guaranteed by the Home Goverh- / ment, .-,'-' .' ; ' ..." , The Amuri MAGiSTRAcr.— We understand that the Geu'efaJ Govern'nWntj'at' the request of the Amuri Magistrates,-, have sent Captain Mellish as a Commissioner to enquire- into the charges 'made by Mr. Rutherford in the last session of the !Provincial Gouncil, against the. Bench of that district... •• .'.- : ' ■'•'■- ' : '-' : ■ ■'■■ ' ■-. IMPORTATION OF CoALS.r— Worn a return laid on thetable. of .the House in complvaix-e with a'-motion of Mr. Stafford's* to that •< j 6eci, : it appears' that 'during the 'five yfars ..ending Decembt'T 31st- 1868; no le_'-» than i£Boo,ooo had "been, spim.t,! upon imported coal. This is a startling fact, and one which should-prove an incentive to our' capitalists' to'^ur'n their attention to, our own inexhaustible coalfields', the pro-j duce.of. some Idf whic\ C-ls^k'nowEptt? be! quite, equal to > that of-fNawcaptleJT The! arrangemejn.ts,»uow. on t}ie point of comple-j tiuu, „fbr w.orkijbg tha Colljupgwepd miuej J.Zf." ,v .A-.U. \i'T,:'.:)': Ax. TA. AAA.' A. '.DM 'M TJA,^.'.- ,J

will, we hope, go some way towards remedying this state of things, for, we trust, in the course of the next month, to see Nelson, at least, excluded from the list of coal importing provinces, and at a somewhat later date, when the mine brings in returns to justify the employment of more labor, we may reasonably expect to find Wellington and other provinces, deriving their supplies of fuel from the same source.

TnE Budget Debate. — The. following is an extract from a letter received this morning by a geutlerauu in Nelson from a Wellington coirespoud»ut : — The debate is still slowly progressing, and the public; are heartily tired of it ; at present it is; impossible to say when it will come to an end or what will be (he result. It is worthy of notice that some of those members who bitterly railed agaiust the Colonial Treasurer and his scheme at first, if they have not quite come round in favor of it, have at: least adopted a mo>e moderate and cautious tone. Each speech appears to be addressed more to the member's constituents than to the House, and Mr. Vogei has siicctfeded admirably iv placing the individual members of tha House in a most delightful dilemma which he must chuckle over with intense delight. Mr. Kynnersley made his imideu speech last week, his delivery was weak and hesitating, but the substance of his remarks was good. He is in Opposition aud opposes the protective tat iff.

In the of the Governor's absence from tho colon jr it has hitherto been tlie custom for the officer commanding the troops to assmn • the acting Governorship, but. as MiMe is no such commander now in Nrtw Z -aland it has lieen found necessary to make fresh arrangements, as wilt be gathered from the following dispatch to Sir G-. Bovven, dated 7th October : — "I have the honour to enclose a dormant commission appointing Sir George Alfred Aruey, Knight, the Chief Justice of New Zealand, or the senior Judge for the time being, to be administrator of the Government of that Colony' in the absence of the Governor. t should wish you to retain this commission in your hands for the present, only ukiug precautions to secure that it be forthcoming iv case circumstances should require Sir G. Arney to assume the Government. I am, &c, Granville." On this subject the Post says'.- — "We must confess that this seems to be a startling innovation on the long established order of things, <iud a relaxation of the careful jealousy, which has ever been, dis-, plnyel, to keep those to whom the administration of the law is committed,! utterly removed from all. connection, with Government or politics. It is not a wise! measure, however high the charactev of the Judges may be, and it would, havebeen .much better to have left tie-acting! governorship in the hands of the, Ministers,; or of the Speakers of the Houses.:: - ]

Mr, Travers stated inlthe ."House of Representatives on Thursday evening, that it was not his inteotiou again to seek the suffrages of any constituency* The hon. and learned gentleman is evidently disgusted with Colonial politics aud party strife. .•","

It is stated that the s,s. Taranaki has; netted £300 per month since she has been running, after her 'refit. Captain Frauds, who was iv command -of the Taranaki wheu, she met with the accident in Tory Channel,' is now master of a barque trading between London and Melbourne.

We, Advertiser, are authorised to state that there is no truth whatever in the report that: any arrangement has been made with Mr. Macaudrew to proceed to Great Britain as. Immigration Agent for the Colony. We gave currency to' the story as we heard it, and presume it must have originated from the conjectures of outer Ministerial circles... .

Since the beginning of -the year, ten( vessels have loaded home from Auckland, 1 with cargoes of the value of £073,724J The following are the stated values of the exports: — Kauri (jura, £85,944 ;' Flix, £18,273 ; Wool, £56,803J;:'i;ailpW£4,616j Wbaleoil, £1,105; Cocoanutoif- £18,040; Cotton, £24,151; Cotton seedy £1,194 ;] Hides, £800 ; Silver, £s;so(D';<y' Sundries,; £2,900. Tl'i« balauce.of tlie grand total is; made up with gold.. '] £££"' " '" j

A JMEMORIA.-L Window-; •ha^-iheenj erected in Si; Paul's Cathedral, <W.|lii)g~ ton to<the memory 'of Gap 1 tain -Bu'i'k and; Lieut.^HastingSs,'^ I^n&fliji r}.lie/f'vv« liuj(J.s1 iuj(J.si j w. | whicli is beautifully., illuminated and! repressers.; certain (rncfder^scjiqii^ the ofj St. Paul, .is. r^,;.bj^ss :^piat^^beariog the !

followiug inscription : — .'« This window is erected by the Wellington Veteran Corps, No. 1 Wellington Rifles, the Porirun and Patea Rifle Companies, in memory of Captain Back, and Henry Charles Holland Hastings, late Wellington Veteran Corps, who fell while gallantly serviug with the Colonial Forces iv the attack on Ngutu-o-te-Manu, on the 7th September 1868." - - -

The Dunedin Evening Star says that no small' amount of consternation appears 'to have been created in commercial circles by the announcement of the immediate alteration of the tariff, so far as the increases indicated by the Colonial Treasurer iv his budget speech were concerned. In certain cases we hear the additions have pressed very heavily indeed — especially in the case of oue large house in the city^ which we are told hold a large consignment of blankets in bond, and which had been recently sold in trade. There is some talk of memorialising the Commissioner of Customs for a remission of additional duties on entries not completed before Tuesday. A subsequent issue of the siime paper says that tlie petition of warehousemen in Dunedin, praying for the remission of the increased duty on soft goods, &c, not cleared out of bond prior to Tuesday last, was to be forwarded to Wellington.

The Otag-o correspondent of the Canterbury Press ''aays: — A host of applications has been received for tho University Professorships, some of them from men' of high standing. The mum-

bers of : the 'Dunedin Press contemplate founding' a sc'holarshipin the University, hut there are m^ny obstacles in the way, and the object may never be carried out. Judging from the numerous applications for the offices of lady principal anl governor, aud commercial master of the High School, there must be a great number of teachers out of employment, or working for very low salaries, both in Australia and New Zealand. For the onerous post of lady principal a salary of only £250 was offered ; yet there were no less than twenty-eiijht candidates. This, ho vever, is surpassed by the competition for the commercial mastership. A promised salary of £200 a year induced 34 applications. A Sydney gentleman has been chosen.