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the part of the Emigrants, and fetter the action of the Government. We have called for tenders for another million on the 9th. We ought to get par at least. What will the Croakers say, who prophecied the money would not be forthcoming when wanted. The enormous rise in the price of Iron at least 50 p.c. will materially disturb your Railway Estimates, but there was no use waiting, as the general impression is prices will rule the same for the next two years - in fact everything has risen in the same proportion. Yours faithfully I.E.Featherston