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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 168, 17 July 1874, Page 2

Pjrivate advices from Wellington stato that the Financial Statement will be delivered on Tuesday next. The Australian telegrams per Hero reached us too late for publication in to-day's issue. Telegraphic communication with the West Coast and Southern Provinces was restored this afternoon, but up to the time of our going to press we had received no news of the arrival of the Claud Hamilton at Hokitika. Colonial Bank. — We call attention to ao advertisement io our present issue announcing that the meeting it waa waa intended to hold to-morrow niijht, will n*t take place, in consequence of the deputation beiug called away to Dunedin, Numbers of persons desirous of building in Wellington have delayed doing so in tho hope that tho price of timber would fall, it has now risen Is per 100 feet. By tbe Albion, for Melbourne, the National Bank shipped from " Greymouth 1879jz 18dwt 12gr of gold. The necessity for another line of telegraph, connecting Nejsoa with the West Coast via the Lyell, is again being shown most forcibly, communication wiih all the. stations - south of Blenheim having been interrupted for more than two days. The expense of carrying the wires from Fox-hill, to which place they must be. extended as soon as the railway is completed, to the Lyell would be so trifling compared with the increased convenience that it would create, that we wonder it has not beem done, long ere this. It is to be hoped that the Southern press and representatives will take the matter up, and that the Government may be induced to take action without further delay. The following Wellington telegrams dated July 14, appears in the Qrey River Argus :— lt is reported on gooJ authority that the Government will propose to pension off Judges Chapman and Arney, also Dr : Featherston. The Attorney-General will probably succeed Judge Arney, Judge Ward will succeed Judge Chapman, and Mr Russell Dr Featherston.