TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 711, 20 July 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. July 19. The Customs revenue for Dunedin car shows uti increase over previous year f L 10.312: Lyttelton. increase in the ear of L 28.211: Auckland, increase of .12.300 ; Wellington. L 15.028 : luverargill and Bluff, L(iß97 ; Napier, L 1133 ; relsmi, L 507 ; Westport, Greymouth, nd Hokitika show a decrease of L/ 7120 ; tlier ports show altogether an increase of .4011). The proportions of revenue eonributed by the principal classes of imports re : —Spirits, L35377G ; tobacco, cigars, nd snufi", L 151,034; wine and beer,

LG3.995 ; tea, coffee, &c, L 89,401 sugar, L 131,539 ; goods by weight, L*7,BGO ; goods ad valorem, L 330,770 ; other duties, L 4437.

Sir George Grey is sufficiently indisposed to prevent his attending his office for the last few days. Telegrams from the Agent-General announce the sailing of the ship Rakaia from Plymouth, with 2GO immigrants for Wellington. She left on the Ist inst. The outgoing mail took 57 nominations for immigrants. The total nomination for the year was over 900. An attempt is being made here to float a Tanning and Leather Company, with a capital of L 20.000. July 20. The City of New York, with the London mails of the 28th June, left San Francisco for Auckland on the Bth inst. ■ >s> CHRISTCHURCH. July 20. The Canterbury Rifle Association have decided to hold four prize meetings per year instead one, and have issued a challenge for an interprovincial match with Otago. «, AUCKLAND. July 19.

At a meeting re the Kaipara railway extension, Mr. Stewart, District Engineer, said that Messrs. Lawson and Conyers adopted the coast line as being more economical than the inland line, which would cause too many steep gradients. In view of the extension to Hokianga and the Bay of Islands, Mr. J. Buchanan moved—(l.) " That this meeting learns with deep regret that the Minister for Public Works has, in defiance of public opinion and repeated promises of the present and former Governments, abandoned the inland line extension of the Kaipava railway, and ordered the survey of what is known as the coast line." (2.) "That the coast line passing through a barren and unpeopled country cannot possibly ever contribute to the revenue from railways, whilst the inland line passes through fair agricultural land, inhabited by energetic and industrious settlers of 25 years' standing, and skirts extensive forests at Waitakerei, thousands of acres of which which has never yet been touched, and would yield enormom revenue for many years to come ir ii,>, development were assisted by railway communication." (3.) " That the Hon. the Minister for Public Works be earnestly requested to adhere to the inland line." Mr. Thomas Henderson seconded the resolutions, which were carried unanimously.

INVERCARGILL. July 19. Mr. Goynes, late school teacher at Ballan, Victoria, has been appointed Inspector by the Southland Education Board. There were 20 applicants, the majority being high classmen.