INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue X, 6 January 1875, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL.

:: .. .Wblunqton. Wednesday ATriyed— Wailaoe, from Nelson. .•"'•,:' v "' : '■.''') . ' NAMftB, Wednesday. ;' Clarence, from London, with 348 immigrants, all well There -w*re 2 1 deaths chiefly of, infants, from diarrhcet, and two births. The passengers a>e, now being landed, and are a promis ing looking shipment, -. - Ltttelton; Tuesday. ' . ThoOtftgo arrived this morning ab 6,45, making the.paspjigein fifteen hours exactly, being the quietest en record. : She sails north at 6"3o;p.m'.' • . r . .. . ; '.CC cCHBiaTCHOBGHj Wednesday. ?■ The Hon. C C. Bowen, in Jiis ~ addre* to theEniapoi electors, »ai-i that he only accepted & sent in the Ltttuslfttivc Council on the distinct undemanding that he would offer himself for the first suitable vacancy in Canterbury- for- the Assembly. It was more convenient that as a member of the Government he should be in the Home of Hepresent* tires, and lie thought he was noljeniltleii tj thedignia^i ease of the Upter House when ah opportunity offered to face the fle» ocr strif^ and to bear the heavier burdens ■and cares of the Lower 5 Bouse He n mindtd the.el«ctof4Jihttt he bad been identified with; public life for many ye»r', and was a member of the GoYerfimerit which constructed the 1 first railway and first telegraph in the colony. ; |(> ; ,w*» absurd in such a critic \\ time aa the ; presept for the colony to let one Qovernriienc j raise money and an ther spend it, which ;?irp»ld be a mist fruitful source of log>roll.n'it. ! -He defended the prop Bed change regarding the j ■ provinces and referred to the sjieech of I ord j ■ Doflerin *ongratn'ating the Caoa^a dominion! on the destruction of small. ;l<Ksal preju, iegs. < < HoY much more would Now Zealand bave to} be congratulated upon gett'ng rid of the much i r .fl»rrower provlncinl jealoußifoand congeries off • p/irishes, and becoming « great nation The! 'alteration could not be i fflcteii in one or'twoi KBriom. The legi> lation-w uld be' tentative,' and no doubt ia time would embrace both ; Islands, but great care must be used to secure! local control over local revenues. There' -w^uid biß no difflcuity in dividing the islands t'fano counties and sub-diyirfing'thetninto distrfct*. The main difficulty, besetting tbi question is the distribution of the revenue 1A; broad line "shbiild'be drawn between, the -land revenue "bf the North and South ( and the ■■> Geberal ; Governmodfc; r ag;!thl chief administrator should iifetaini iLfidi both islands a fair proportion of the land revenue for 'arteifUl comraualdation* /JThe ' ife'mainder of the. land fun 1 ought to bead „ .ißlaiitijreji looaljy in diff renfc drßtricft:r;H4 ;r s woaid 'M^t^g'ee a cdnspiidation b')w4r. . : Magi laws and Btanip'.dutie*, arid the aloptton or ft •• Police Offinces Act »' applying to the r v; Whole colony. ; ; He «id verted ; to 5 ftwious other