(PER ROTORUA AT AUCKLAND.) MELBOURNE. 28th November.

Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 285, 5 December 1877, Page 2

(PER ROTORUA AT AUCKLAND.) MELBOURNE. 28th November.

Mr. Berry, in introducing a statement of the payment of ineinl ,rs' item on the Estimates, referred to the undoubted privileges of tho Assembly in dealing with the question in the manner proposed, rle said that the Legislative Council would have thrown out the Land Tax Bill if it had dared, and would also throw out the Appropriation Bill if it dare, but that would be the sounding of its deathknell They would be guilty of an act of revolution, and every mcmt3r of that Chamber who upheld them would be stigmatised as a traitor and revolutionist. However dire might be the consequences, they would 1 d responsible for the act. — There were 600 candidates at the Civil Service Exiimination ; 114 are ladies. — The Sapphire goes to Sydney, and thence to Samoa. The Wolverene will reach Sydney about Christmas next, and will then proceed to New Zealand. — A large sale of fencing wire and corrugated iron is about to take place, and owing to advices of short shipment, a rise •will probably occur in prices. — A fire broke out at the Victoria Hotel at Essendon. The whole of the training stables were destroyed, and the horses were got out with great difficulty, and but for the assistance of the neighbors the whole of the main building would have been burned down. — A young man named Edward Stevens was charged at the City Police Court with the embezzlement of £670 of his employer's (W. H. Lambert) money, aud was remanded.