LATE TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 24, Issue 1260, 18 January 1894, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAMS.

(By Electric Telegraph.) BY bUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. ... Dcnedik, Jan; 18. .„ At the City Council meeting last night one of the councillors gave this comforting intelligence, that quite recently -milk given by a cow suffering from cancer had been sold in Dunedin.

At a meeting of -the Education Board yesterday Mr John Wilkinson, representing settlers at Matakanni, waited upon the board and protested against the removal of the School in that district. It was. resolved that, in view of the contract, being signed, and .the .removal of buildings nearly completed, the board could not see its way to alter its previous. decision. . t [ . The expenditure af the colony last quarter was £1,460,290. ~. .. The Minister for Lands arrived at Christchurch last night. He is too ill to receive deputations and is in a weak state of health, A, very large shark was captured in the lower harbour, yesterday afternoon. Heavy rain has been falling on the West Coast, and the rivers are ; flooded!.- As a result the Premier is detained at Krimara, j The Cheviot mausion and 5000 acres were sold to H. D. Bell; on behalf of Mrs Charles Campbell, for the upset price of: £25.0001 The ballot for .42 sections of first and second-class agricultural land on the estate; on lease in perpetuity,..also took, There was a large number of applicants for several sections, but in fopr cases no applications were made. The area of land leased is 10,791a'. and the annual revenue £29421 The area of land sold, for cash oh the estate is now 6365 acres, for which £33,600 has been received". The area leased is 27,312 acres, the capital value of which is £142,809, and the yearly rental £7140. The area remaining for- disposal is 46,237 acres. The Times Wellington.", correspondent wires:—The new issue issue pf £5 and £1 postal notes; authorised by the Postal No" es Act Amendment Act of last session, will be commenced before the expiration, of the' financial year. The first issue will be limited to £IOO,OOO, and they will be issued through the various post .offices of the colony in the usual way.—The. Ministers will during, the recess give full consideration to some aspects of existing fiscal policy with a view to reform. . It will be sought to aetnoTß-some anomalies of the existing tariff so !as to lighten impost upon products and materials t'.;at may be necessary to local industry.— The question of a less costly, if not, free breakfast table will occupy their attention, but this from the Treasurer's point of view is a costly affiitr, and he, may not be able to afford it.—The Treasurer's estimate of the revenue for the.financial year, as in budget; was £4,539,700,, and this sum the hon. gentleman informs me will be quite, realised. My opinion is that it will be .exceeded; bat Mr Ward prefers to be oh the safe side! —I have reason to believe that Sir Patrick Buckley has abandoned his .intention to proceed to Europe.