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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 112, 19 March 1879, Page 2

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(per PRESS agency,) London, March 14, CABLE TO CAPE. Tenders are invited for laying cable to the Capo. ZULUS. At the House of Commons to-day, the under secretary for State foreign affairs announced his haying been ■informed "that the ai'ins- Ttii'ci' ammunition shipped from 'Manchester to Mozambique were not intended for Zulus. LORD CHELMSFORD. The Chancellor of the Exchequer replying to the question said—" It is not intended to supersede Lord Chelmsford or or to relieve him of the command of the British forces at Natal." Mutton and tallow, 365. Paris, March 14. SYDNEY EXHIBITION. Minister for Agriculture and Commcrc appointed a committee to arrango proper representation for France at the Sydnev Exhibition. _ Aden, March 14. Arrived: Lusitani, from Australia. Wellington, Tuesday. SURVEYOR JACKSON DISMISSED. Mr Surveyor Jackson having refused to resign in thesewords." Poorandfriendless as I may be my self-respect forbids me to pocket a money consideration accompanied by a cruel indignity. He was this morning informed that his Excellency the administrator has dismissed him from tho Public Service. MARCHANT CHIEF SURVEYOR. J. W. A. Marchant is to succeed Mr Jackson as Chief Surveyor, and is to take charge to-morrow. The native surveys in tho Wellington district will also be placed under Marchant's control, with Williams the present officer in charge as Inspector for the whole district. THE HYDERABAD INQUIRY. Effect of finding just come to in the Hyderabad inquiry. No blame is attributable to Captain Holmwood for loss of the ship, The Court, however, is opinion that the log book was not kept in sufficiently careful manner; but all certificates were returned, and costs of inquiry to be borne by Government. Cjiristchurch, Monday, CHRISTCHUROH FETE. The weather is splendid, and there is every prospect of the fete being a greg.t success. Streets arc crowded with people, and the procession mustering up. It consists of city councillors (past and present), iiro brigades, and public bodies of various kinds, belonging to both town and oountry. Brass bands, with advance guard of men on Jerusalem ponies. The Richardson Show performers are numbering in all considerably above a thousand people, while the spectators number nearly a thousand; and it is expected tbore will be twenty thousand persons on the ground; £IOOO takings may, therefore, bo relied on. This evening there is to bo a monster promenade concert in tho drill shod; a performance at the theatre ; a grand ball, and fireworks wind up the whole. The cricket match Timaru v. Christchurch takes place on the ground adjoining the Park, The whole of the proceeds goes to the Kaitangata Fund,

; THE LATE ACCIDENT,\';William Smith, the engine-driver whoso log was amputated in cpnsequence of an. .accident received on the line a few days 'agdj-died in the Hospitnl yesterday, never ' having recovered the shock, • • r WELLINGTON LAND SALES, At a large sale of land known as Sutherland's- estate, in the vicinity of the city, prices reached from 40s to 60s per acre; but proceedings languid, and the atten : ; dance not very; large. Many lots were withdrawn. • ■' ' ; THE'GREENFIELD ACTION. , The action to recover £SO from Councillor Greenfield, for sitting as member of Council after ho had received payment as one of Wharf committee, was tested thuft afternoon, The Magistrate said he hsfti no jurisdiction and dismissed the case, SEMI-OFFICIAL LEAKAGE. An apparently semi-official article in to-night's Chronicle deals with the finan- - cial position and prospects of the colony, While considering Customs revenue so far satisfactory, it says the"land taxis nok|*;. likely to come up to expectations, and the. loss of the amount to the year's revenue will more than absorb any surplus which maybe anticipated from Customs. The estimate was £IOO,OOO, and cost of collection £loo,ooo, But it thinks cost collection will reach £IB,OOO, while amount ■ : collected will be £120,000. The nunor : items of ordinary revenue railways) - are likely to meet anticipation. Postal and Telegraph showing steady advance. It had been hoped that L 300,000 would be realised from Waimate Plains, but the utmost that can now be anticipated from plains during year is L 120,000. It thinks • treasury cannot hope to receive from land revenue before the end of the financial year more than a million, thus leaving ; deficit over this item of quarter of million, which will require all ingenuity of treasurer so as to prevent deficency in his next statement. Railways go a long way to make up deficits in other department, the estimate was L 710,000, and receipts for halfyear reached L 309,000 since which Dunedin and Invercargill line been opened, and an increase in railway traffic has taken place all over the colony, and from this branch of revenue a total of LBoo,oooor L 900,000 is expected. The article goes on to say that that the large estates can easily bear another penny on land tax to make up for the falling off in the land revenue, Further on it Bays if given time, the railways alone will carry the colony safely over all financial difficulties. Auckland, Monday. THE RETURN FROM NELSON,

Captain Loroy and naval brigade mustered at the Railway Station to receive Petty Officer Gordon of the Thames, carbine champion. The returned representatives were afterwards entertained at luncheon when mutual congratulations. were indulged in. DROWNING. • News from Port Charles reports the drowning of Frederick and Charlotte Otto at Coney Bay. It ia persumed they went out in a boat to visit friends and were capsized. CRUSHED TO DEATH. Two men named Bond and Maghen working at Hairns rush, Wangaroa, was knocked down by a falling tree the trunk rolled on Miighen crushing him to death. HIBERNIAN FETE, Great Hibernian fete and children* fete to day many hundred enjoying themselves domain.