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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4274, 1 December 1874, Page 2

There are. some timid people and grumblers amongst 'US' who .are afraid of the policy the colony is pursuing, because it is bold, and aims at high results. We commend to their consideration the following very meaning paragraph from the editorial columns of the Melbourne Daily Telegraph*. —“The budget-has been submitted to the Parliament of New South Wales, and it will rather astonish the people who complain that Victoria is spending too much money. Mr. Service’s proposal spend £1,470,000 during the current year, with a population of 800,000, and Mr. Lloyd will expend £3,457,000 with a popxdation of 560,000. The Victorian disbursement is £5 10s. per head, and that of Now South Wales is £6 3s. 6d., and New South Wales has no such item as an educational vote of £450,000. NewSouth Wales claims to be our mother, and evidently we must keep our eye upon our maternal relative. She is sending for immigrants—she is building railways faster than ourselves.”, Yet the revenue of New South Wales shows, by the. enormous increase it presents for the last year—notwithstanding the reductions in the tariff—that the policy of that colony is sound.

It was telegraphed a few days ago, that Mr. Berkeley had been appointed Governor of Western Australia, in succession to Mr. Weld. It appears now, that the rumor was erroneous. The new Governor of that colony is Mr. William, Cleaver Robinson. Little or nothing appears to be known of him, but it is supposed that he is the gentleman of that name who was at one time President of Montserrat, and who had, previously, held the office of private secretary to Sir Hercules Robinson, wlieu he was Governor of Hongkong.

A Berlin telegram of the 14th of November states that Count Arnim, who had been allowed his liberty on bail, has been re-arrested. Either the charges against him are regarded as very serious, or Prince Bismarck is pushing matters against him to extremes.