INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 182, 3 August 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PRESS AGENCY.] Dunedin, Thursday. Messss Reeves and Roberts have been appointed a deputatiou to wait on the Government re the railway. The Customs revenue for last month amounted to £31,390, the amount for the corresponding month of last year having; been £28,845. Oue hundred and thirty-two applications have been received for work at Balclutha. The men who have gone out complain that they caunot get work or credit from the storekeepers. The Government has reduced the goods tariff on the Dunedin and Pore Chalmers railway, the general manager having instruotious authorising him to carry ship's -.'goods from Port Chalmers to Dunedin as Class C which makes tho rates 5s 2d per ton. This order places the rates lower than they were. The recent alteration of the new tariff will, it is considered, place the Otago railway lines on a very satisfactory footing. Port Chalmers, Thursday. Sailed: Hawea, for North. Passengers for Nelson*. Messrs Connell and Burntield. Captain Kennedy is in charge, Captain Wheeler haviag leave of absence on account of ill-health. Kumara, Thursday. . A numerously attended public meeting was held bore last evening to discuss the principles of Mr Pox's Local Option Bill. The following resolutions were carried:— (1.) "That in the opinion of this "meeting a very large proportion of the vice, crime, disease, poverty, aud other social evils which exist in this Colony are the direct results of the traffic iv and the use of alcoholic beverages." (2.) " That no system of licensing laws has yet been effectual for the prevention of those evils to prevent which they were euacted, and that therefore a change is necessary both in the principle aud method of the laws dcaliug with the liquor trade." (3.) "That tho principle embodied in the Local Option Bill is equitable, practicable, and likely to afford the public relief from many of the evils arising from the consumption of intoxicating liquors." CnßisTciidßcn, Thursday. The following entries were received by the Jockey Club last night:— Canterbury Cur: Mr Walters' Venus Transit 3 yrs, Mr Ray's Mirelle 3 yrs, Mr Reeves Chaucellor 3 yrs, Mr Walters' Le Loup 3 yrs, Mr Stephenson's Sapphira 3 yrs, Mr Stephenson's Satirist 3 yrs, Mr Parmer's Ariel 5 yrs, Mr Mallock's Tell Tale 3 yrs, Mr Mallock's Water Sprite 3 yrs, Mr Mallock's Tres Deuce 3 yrs, Mr Saunders Marquis of Normauby 3 yrs, Mr Mills' Undine 3 yrs, Mr Webb's Trump Card 3 yrs, Mr Webb's Gangleis 3 yrs, Mr Delamaiu's Templeton aged, Mr Delamain's Parthenopceus 3 yrs, Mv Delamain's Oberon 3 yrs, Mr O'Brien's Mufti, Traducer, and Fiat Iron , 3 yrs, Mr O'Brien's Lima, Traducer, Flying Fish 3 yrs, Mr Redwood's Guy Fawkes G yrs, Mr Redwood's Puriri 4 yrs, Mr Redwood's Wai-iti 3 yrs, Mr Redwood's Mata 3 yrs, Mr Hed woods Puriri 3 yrs. Canterbury Jockey Club Handicap: Mr Walters' Venus Transit 3 yrs, Mr Ray's Mirelle 3 yrs, Mr Ray's Danebury '3 yrs, Mr Ray's Middleton 4 yrs, Mr Lennard's Bide a Wee 6 yrs, Mr Walker's Le Loup 3 yrs, Mr Stephenson's Rob Roy 6 yrs, Mr Stephenson's Satirist 3 yrs, Mr Hayward's Ouida 5 yrs, Mr Goodman's Rose of Denmark (late Spray) 4 yrs; Mr Farmer's Ariel 5 yrs, Mr Farmer's Longlands 3 yrs, Mr Mallock's Foul Play, 3 yrs, Mr Mallock's Tell Tale 3 yrs, Mr Mallock's Water Sprite 3 yrs, Mr Powell's Maroro 3 yrs, Mr Sauuder's Marquis of Normanby 3 yrs, Mr Mill's Undine 3 yrs, Mr Webb's Trump Card 3 yrs, Mr Webb's Ganglers 3 yrs, Mr Delamain's Templeton aged, Mr Delamain's Parthenopoeus 3 yrs Mr Delamain's Oberon 3 yrs, Mr Delamain's Pungawerewere 5 yrs, Mr Nosworthy's Traitor aged, Mr Nosworthy's Fallacy 4 yrs Mr Moneys Maritana 6 yrs, Mr Lunn's Grey Momus 6 yrs, Mr O'Brien's Zantippe 3 yrs Mr Rome's Opawa aged, Mr Redwood's Guy Fawkes 6 yrs, Mr Redwood's Mata 3 yrs, Mr Redwood's Puriai 3 yrs, Mr Redwood's Chokebore 3 yrs, Mr Fraser's Bribery 3 yrs Mr Fraser's Equation 3 yrs. ' Wellington Thursday. At the Conference of Municipal delegates held to-day, Mr Standish moved, " That the Government be asked to postpone the passing of the Charitable Institutions Bill until Tuesday, in order that the suggestions of the Conference on the matter° be , laid before Parliament, and if approved of embodied in the Bill." Carried unanimously. Mr Standish moved. " That fche Chairman write requesting the Government to be good enough to inform this Conference upon what basis of calculation the pro rata deduction for the maintenance of charitable institutions and hospitals out of the subsidies payable to Municipal Corporations have been made aud are inteuded to be made for the future, and whether subsidies payable to County Couucils and Road Hoards have been and will be liable to the same deductions." Carried unanimously. Mr Reynolds considered clause three of the Bill a direct violation of the Abolition Act of last session, and urged that the Conference should insist ou those principles beiug maintained, as otherwise the Provincial Governments would have been abolished on false pretences. The subject then dropped. After some cursory discussion the Conference went formally into committee on the Municipal Corporations Act, which it was agreed required several important amendments. It was resolved, ou the nioliou of Mr Standish, to recommend that'-clause 11 be amended by empowering a Resident Magistrate to exercise any jurisdiction exercisable under the Act by two .Justices of the Peace. It was recommended that, clause 345 be repeated. It was agreed that the Conference recommend that the number of residents required for a district to be formed in a borough should bu j 00, instead of 150 as required by clause 17, provided that the nvw borough should be not less than live miie3 distant from an existing one. Also that the number of signature.*- required to be attached to a petition for such borough to be constituted should be 50 instead of J. OO. On the motion of Mr Hutchinson, it was resolved that the opinion of the Attomey-Geueral be taken as to whether clause 223 gave Municipal

Councils power to take lands outside boroughs for drainage purposes. On the motion of Mr Stewart, it was resolved to seek legislative provision for exempting receipts given by Municipalities from stamp duty. A telegram was received from the Invercargill Municipal Council, asking the Conference to recommend power to be given to levy a general rate of 2s in the £ instead of ls, being the limit at present. The proposal elicited much discussion, but the majority of the Conference decided against the preposal, which, on beiug put, was rejected. After a few other matters had beeu touched on, and several notices of motion given, the Conference adjourned. I •in «r * Tuesday. lhe Wakatipu ha 3 arrived from Sydney. She has 70 tons of cargo for Nelson, but no passengers.