QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY JULY 24,1891. TELTEGRAPHIC.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1829, 24 July 1891, Page 2

QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY JULY 24,1891. TELTEGRAPHIC.

♦ (From our own Correspondent. )

Dunedin, this day. At Wednesday's meeting of the Land Board the land office forwarded particulars of the late J. Dewar's deferred-payment license, Lower Hawea, and it was resolved thas the land be offered for sale on the ordinary conditions.—A wood-cutter's license, Turner's Creek, Dart, over five acres, was granted to Harry Birley.—Lake County Council forwarded a list of roads on which it is proposed to expend money derived from the usual sources, and the same was approved. Since the opening of the central line traffic has so increased that four trains now run weekly to Middlemarch, and it is expected that in a few months nearly all the traffic to the interior will go that way. The Theodore steamer, on Lake Wanaka, sank at the jetty on Wednesday She was laid up when the lake was high and, the water receding, she was left dry on the beach with hvr stern in the water. The strain probably caused her to spring a leak, and it is feared thas she may slip into deep water. The annual report of the Refrigerating Company for the past year is not satisfactory.: At the Supreme Court on Wednesday the case of Pitches v. Sloan, both of Ophir, was heard, and on resuming yesterday defendant's solicitor intimated that the parties had come to an arrangement, and judgment was given for £325. The Customs revenue for the colony for the past quarter is slightly below that of the same period of last year. Postal revenue has decreased and the telegraphic increased. Tbe Savings Bank shows an increase on deposits over withdrawals of eighty thousand. The Pastoralists' Association, Australia, reply to Sir H. Parkes that they decline to confer with shearers unless fieedom of contract is conceded. The Waihora did not take so many shearers to Sydney from here as went to Queensland on previous trip, but taking all ports, the required number of 200 h»s been made up. LATEST PARLIAMENTARY. In the Hoose of Representatives on Wednesday night, Mr Joyce's Licensing Bill was debated, then read a second time by a majority of three votes, and was to come up again to-day, but it is not likely to be further advanced this session. Mrßees' Bill, censuring the late Government for the recent Legislative Council appointments has been read a aecond time, but this also is likely to be shelved. The second reading of Mr Hutchison's Licensing Bill was rejected by 28 to 21 votes. The Premier gave notice to introduce the Payment of Members Bill, which proposes to give members of the House £240 and councillors £l5O. A petition has been piesented by Mr Fergus, on behalf of Thomas Quill, father of the late W. Quill, praying for relief and compensation. Nothing has been done re the Agent-Generalship, though the present Agent-General leaves in October. It is undersood the debate on the Land bill will be continued to day, and, if possible concluded. The Friendly Societies amendment bill has been read a second time. This is the bill aiming at defeating tke union Company's benefit society.

LATEST CABLE NEWS. London, July 22. The Postmaster-general is trying to arrange with the tnasury for a penny postage to Australia. A meeting took place among the Coldstream Guards, being irritated by the incessant drill ten men were imprisoned, when the others refused to drill unless their comrades were released, and the authorities have capitulated. Three hundred and sixty persons died from cholera in Mecca in one day. Grave rumours are afloat of further bark failures. A monetary crisis in Portugal imperils the stability #f the Monarchy.