POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Press, Volume XLI, Issue 6154, 10 June 1885, Page 2

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

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WELLINGTON, Jun* 9.

Major Cautley hands over the charge of the defence works to-morrow. Ah a compliment to him, one of the forts is to be named Cautley fort; it is not decided which.

As the Mine 3 Department is now a separate portfolio, the Hon. Mr Larnach has decided to make, at an early period of the session, a Ministerial statement, much in the same way as the Minister of Public Works prepares hie. The statement will be comprehensive, and deal with the mining industries in each district. In his statement Mr Larnaoh will recommend the adoption of Professor Black's suggestion aa to the establishment of mining schools, and for that purpose has induced his colleagues to place a sum of about £17,000 on the estimates. It is not, however, intended that Government should bear the whole cost of such schools, as they will only be established in districts where miners are willing to contribute to the cost. Sets of samples will be procured from England* to assist in instructing the mining community in mineralogy, &c. From his recent tour of inspection, Mr Larnaoh has ascertained that the principal wants of miners are additional water power and catting tracks through heavily* wooded country so as|to enable prospecting to be carried on.