MARLBOROUGH.

The following facts will be found of considerable interest to our readers; showing as they do the very small revenue which the Province of Marlborough has been enabled to carry on Government with. We may mention that the district of Timaru has been and now is yielding the Canterbury Government a revenue of nearly four times that of the above province : — The revenue receipts for the quarter ended the 30th of June, was £12,207, but this was inclusive of a balance of £4,746 from the quarter preceding. A return has been published, showing the. quantity of land sold, and the sum it has realised, since the separation of the Wairau from Nelson. We give only the round figures — Average Quantity m Amount per acre acres. £ s. d. Pasture land . 400,764 110,910 56| Rural land . . 19,193 12,199 12 84 Suburban land . 4,559 5,260 ; Town land . . 77 3,652 424,593 £132,021 The total' quantity of land sold by the province, between the Ist November, 1859, and the 31st of March, 1865, was therefore 414,593 acres, which realised £132,021. The Age of August- 29th says— lt is just thirty j .years to-day since the city of Melijourne was .founded. On the 29th August, 1835. ilr. J. P. ' Fawkaer. with live others, sailed up the Yarra iv tlit Kuterprisej un<l lauded on the sit^ ot the present; metropolis of Victoria. We understand that three of those who accompanied Mr. Fawkner are still living.