SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 726, 7 August 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[from: our own ooiiKKspoxDENr.j —♦- DUNEDTN. August '?. Arrived—Ship J. N. Fleming, from Glasgow. The Times congratulates the Colonial Treasurer on the inauguration of a new system of finance, and on the moderation of the proposals. It hails as a very appreciable relief the remission of duties on tea and sugar and the encouragement of the consumption of light wines as in the interests of temperance, morality, and public health, Nothing could be fairer than the proposed land tax, and if the cost of valuation and collection do not assume a portentious magnitude in proportion to the results, the tax will not only increase in richness, with the Colony's growth but by it become thtl mainstay of the colony's finance. It cons.iclei-s.-the promised total renioyal at ad mlairmduties as one of the happiesr&iahceptioiis of statemen. It was seven o'clock this morning before the Jast slips of the flrtasicial statement were reeeived here.

4> PORT CHALMERS. August 7. The ship James Nichol Fleming made the passage from Glasgow in §9 days. She brings 3$ passengers and 1700 tons Cargo, On the 26th June, when off Tristan d'Acunha, in lat. 35 S., she encountered a heavy north-east gale, with a high sea,, which washed a man paoied Patrick, a seaman, off the jibb° om i an( i took him to tha windward of fly- A was lowered, and after polling for an hou>- and a half he was rescued, Qji' Tasmania a s< a, broke cvti hoard and fl' odi-d the decks, jamming John Gibb, a saauiaiij against t'.io bulwarks, breaking his ribs and arm. Gibb is gifting on well. • ' ' Sailed.—lfingaraoma, for Bluff; Albion, for Lyttelton.