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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 181, 3 October 1866, Page 3

By a majority of one only in a House of forty-seven members, the Government succeeded in carrying their resolution for the imposition of a penny postage rate on all newspapers transmitted through the colony. "We (Advertiser) have been informed that had there been a fuller House the proposition would have been neirarived. The propriety of discharging the Bill was urged upon the Government, but they denied that the House was thin when thfe division was taken, and inserted as clause .4 .in. the Bill that the Act should come into operation on the Ist of January, 1867. Mr. Macandrew moved, as an amendment, that 1868 should be substituted, but it was lost on ihe voices, and tlie Bill was reported to the House. The District Surveyor has commenced the survey of the proposed liue of route through

the Maori Reserve, <»f the Greymouth anil Saltwater tramway. It is expected that' the survey will be completed in about a week, when the directors will be able to call a special meeting of the shareholders,.to,decide which route shall be adopted. The Hokitika Star says :— A work entitled " N<ra Tapu Tapu, or the Three Foresters," ihe experiences of twenty years in New Zealand, is now being published on the Ist of December. The author, Mr. Donaldson,, has already published several works of considerable literary merit., including "Bush Lays and Rhymes," " First Step to the Maori j Language," and others, and as the coming brochure is to contain the outlines of a long ! and varied New Zealand career,- have no doubt it will prove rno.st interesting as well as instructive.