BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1098, 15 August 1873, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(fuom our own correspondent.) WELLINGTON. August 14. The Reporting Debates Committee intend to bring before the House the question of the Speaker suppressing in the House a portion of the letter from the Editor of the Evening Post to him The Company offering to lay a cable between New Zealand and Sydney have increased the capital required to £470,000. A guarantee of five per cent for twenty-five years is required. The company suggest that New Zealand should immediately give" a guarantee on the line, the capital offered for the line between Queensland and India being inadequate. The following is the return of lands sold in 1872, in acres:— Auckland, 625 ; Hawke's Bay, 10,306; Wellington, 65,750; Nelson, 1020; Marlborough, 604 ; Canterbury, 105,373 ;

Westlaud, 4050; Otago, 185,481; Southland, 9012. This is increased to 5;}(>,574 acres in 1872 by payments for public works reserves, grants to natives, and payments to the New Zealand compaiiy. The Agent-General has telegraphed that war medals will he sent out by the July mail. The steamer Manawatn has returned from the wreck of the Rangitoto, and reports the wreck stationary. Divers have commenced work. Mr Dmnsfield was a passenger per Albion, from Melbourne, and telegraphs that he could not purchase vessels suitable for the coal trade. Tonnage is scarce in Melbourne. No sailing vessels are procurable at less than £l2 per ton, and suitable vessels are not procurable at that price. The Wellington Coal Company will wait some time before commencing operatious. CHRISTCHURCH. Royse, Stead, and Co. (piote flour at £ll 10s, 2001b bags; wheat scarce, demand light, at ss; oats, quiet; holders ask 4s 9d to 4s lOd. DUNE DIN. Messrs Shaw, Saville, and Co. write, accusing the Government of unfairly playing into the hands of the New Zealand Shipping Company when the former's tender was £3 lUs lower. A petition against ad valorem duties is being numerously signed. The Chamber of Commerce have held a meeting to receive the report of the committee on ad valorem duties. The report showed that the new imports would double the Customs receipts. The Chamber adopted resolutions in favor of a more equitable adjustment of the tariff without increasing the scale. The shareholders in the Masonic Hall Company forced an entrance and endeavoured to dispossess Hudson, the purchaser. The police interfered to prevent a riot. AUCKLAND. The Freight Company has concluded an amalgamation with the -New Zealand Shipping Company. The rainfall on the tenth lasted for thirty-six hours and was four and a-half inches, causing serious floods and much damage. Advices from London report the Shipping Company as very successful. A new iron barque has been purchased, and the company is negotiating for two other ships. The Adamant, with Government immigrants, sailed at the end of .[une.