LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 9, 12 May 1875, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

PRESS AGENCY. NEW PLYMOUTH. May 11. A deputation re Lunatic Asylum waited on the Superintendent to-day, to hear replies from Superintendents of other Provinces, whether they could take our lunatics. The Superintendent told the deputation that Wellington was the only Province which had room in asylum to take lunatics. The deputation expressed a wish that they should be sent there immediately. A new block of land of 6,000 acres will be opened for sale shortly. NELSON. May 11. At the opening of the Provincial Council to-day, the Superintendent spoke of the Brunner Railway as a remarkable specimen of political railways. After a struggle of four or five years, it now affords some promise of being op on for traffic before the end of the year. The first estimate of its construction, for which a vote was taken in 1871, was £26,250. In 1872, estimate was raised to £54,400, or more than double, and a vote tikon for difference of £28,150. In 1873, the estimate was raised to £74,000, and a vote taken for excess of £20,000. In 1874, estimate raised to £84,000, and vote taken for additional £10,000; and this year he believed a further sum of at least £15,000 would bo required. Whether the line could be maintained at all in the present position without enormous cost, or whether it would tumble into the river, were questions which time alone could decide. Ho believed it would be found necessary to abandon it, and to re-constrnct it on the north bank of the river, with the terminus at Cobdcn. He would not oppose the abolition question, if it was carried out throughout the colony, and did not insist upon maintaining intact the compact of 1856.