BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1101, 26 August 1873, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

[Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency] WELLINGTON. A meeting of the Otago and Canterbury Members has been held for considering the various questions raised in the Financial Statement. Amongst others, the proposals to take security in land for future lines, the construction of branch railways, the power of the provinces to borrow, and the raising of a loan for the purpose of purchasing native lands in the North Island. A sub-committee consisting of three members from each province was appointed

to draw up resolutions for consideration at a future meeting These resolutions will be based upon the opinions generally expressed at the meeting, which were in the direction that the main lines of communication named in the schedule to the Railway Bill, 1871, be completed out of the loan without land as security ; that the proposal to take land would be resisted, and that the two provinces would of themselves construct the various branch lines ; that the meeting was not unfavorable to a loan to be charged upon the Colony for the purpose of purchasing a landed estate for the North Island provinces. The Gazette of the 21st contains a proclamation appointing Mr Oswald Curtis a governor of Nelson College. The Gazette of the 2lst notifies the appointment of J. S. Caverhill, Amuri; G. Gillow, Wangapeka; and J. W. Humphrey, Westport, as Justices of the Peace. August 25. Sailed : William Davie for Loudon. The Independent exonerates Brogden from blame for abandoning the Immigration Contract, and denies the Agent-General's claim to any credit for introduction of Brogden's Immigrants. The correspondence shows that Brogden notified to the Agent-General in November that their Immigration scheme would be suspended. The A gent-General only informed the New Zealand Government in April. DUNEDiy. At a public meeting resolutions in favor of making Duedin the central terminus of the Otago railway system, have been passed. PORT CHALMERS. An accident has occurred on the railway, the engine being- thrown off the line, and the carraaiges smashed. No lives were lost.

GREYMOUTH. The Directors of the Greymouth Coal Company have selected the site for a shaft. They have found a splendid seam of coal from fourteen to sixteen feet thick, and have resolved to start work at such a low level as will drain and prove the mine. The mine has been christened Wallsend Drive.