FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7362, 15 July 1889, Page 5

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.

'< WELLINGTON, July 14. The Hon. Mr Fertrus promised some time back that Government would have an electric boat conveyed to Mossburn free of rharxe for the convenience of visitors to the Otayo lakes. Since then the railways have passed into the hands of the Railway Commissioners, and tns promise has not been fulfilled. Yesterday morning Messrs Ward, Hodskinson, and Feldwick ■waited on the Minister for-Public Works respecting the matter, and he promised to see Mr Fergus, and consult the Commissioners about the matter. A report has reached here from Dunedin that Mr Adams, Chief Surveyor for Otago. was to be transferred to Wektland. On mailing enquiries from the Minister in charge of the Department I was informed that no alteration would be proposed in the Survey Department till the offices of Chief Commissioner and Chief Surveyor at Dunedin and Nelson were amalgamated, and that, he added, would not be for another year at all events. Considerable dissatisfaction is expressed at the choice of Colonel De Quincey as Sergeant-ac-Arms. Although the Speaker referred to him as an old member, I find from the search of Parliamentary Records that he only served one session, having l»eeii returned for the Pensioners' Settlements Electorate, Auckland, in February 18G3, and resigned in July of the following year. la Committee on the Oanoarn Harbor Loan Bill Mr Hutchison, will move a proviso prohibiting the Government from advancing out of the funds of any department the .£70,000 proposed to be borrowed by the Board-