INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1045, 11 February 1873, Page 3

INTER-PROVINCIAL.

The Thames 'Advertiser' says:— There are eighteen licensed brokers in Grahamstown, each paying to the Government £25 per annum for the privilege of exercising his profession, but if the bu .mess does not improve, the revenue from this source, next ■yiar, must a lamentable falling off. We are informed that the whole business effected by the licensed sharebrokers of Grahamstown, one day, was the transfer of five scrip in the Black Angel Gold Mining Company. An exchange -says—Some town sections in Taranaki have been sold as high as £l2 10s per foot. Taranaki is looking up, and iron sand is the cause. Land jobbers are buying up allotments, and holding for a rise. The whole talk now is—" How much a foot for your lots?'' The Rev. Gideon Smales, an old Auckland resident, returned from England by the Dakota. During 'his stay in England, Mr Smales delivered lectures advocating the claims of New Zealand as a field for emigration, and in one of these lectures he is reported to have said that " there was a greater proportion of educated Maoris in .New Zealand than of educated Englishmen in England."