LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 212, 21 April 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Per Press Agency.] NEW PLYMOUTH. April 20. The s.s. Taranaki has gone back to Manukau to fetch the English mail. She calls nowhere on her return, but goes direct to Wellington. A banquet is to be given to Major Atkinson about the Ist May. WELLINGTON. April 20. Mr O'Shea reports produce prices as follows ;—Flour, £ls, best Oamaru brands; oats, 3s 3d; bran, 10£ d to Is ; bams,

scarce, 9fl to 104-fl ; bacon, inferior, 4d ; cheese, 74d to Btl ; potatoes, 75s to 80s ; maize, 5s ; pollard, 7s 61CHRISTCHURCH. April 19. Mr Wm. Rolloston, M.H.11. for the Avon district, addressed his constituents last night. After briefly reviewing the past session, he proceeded to refer to the Ministry. He said one of the greatest evils of late years had been that Ministers wandered about the colony. The Ministry had thus been made responsible for the acts of any one of its number, which led to serious trouble and difficulties. The Ministry, unhappily, was constituted of members of the House elected to oppose the Ministry they had joined, and now it represented every kind of principle. The colony had been badly treated by public men changing their opinions after (flection. The run question had been unfairly made a political matter. It was purely local. His opinion was that the tenure of pastoral tenants was merely one for grazing, and the State was bound to got the utmost value, but not to do that at the expense of shutting the country up in any way. If they went in for extreme rental they were bound to give extreme privileges of tenure, With regard to the Government proposal of deferred .payment for land, lie thought it would not be advisable to adopt it generally, but believed the Government would do wisely in connection with the immigration system to let a part of a block of land for the purpose of settlement on the system of deferred payments. It would he well to adopt the village system, similar to what was formerly proposed by Mr Stafford. As to the lund fund, be did not believe the argument regarding the compact of 1856 anything like so strong as that of the old Wakefield system, that the colony refund to the land itself. There should he the appropriation of at least some part of land fund to the locality where it had arisen.