SPECIAL APOLITICAL.

Southland Times, Issue 3568, 27 November 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL APOLITICAL.

' --j '<»-'- "• ■■': (FROM O.UE, QW^-POKRESPONDENT.) ,-., (BY ELECTBIC^EI^&BAPH.) x Wellington, Wednesday; In the House-to-day, Mr Bain asked the ■ Ministerof Landsiwhy Crown Giants for sections 2,. 3, 20, 21, and 22,- block 49, town of Invercargill, have not been issued to the Invercargill Benevolent Institution, these sections -having ybe,en permanently reserved for the purpose hy proclamation.in Gazette of iJ.uly : 25,a878. Mr Rolleston replied that certain preliminary forms <had mdi been complied with, i 'When "the institution -was -incorporated Crown grants would be issued.- 1 ■" 7 ..Mr Shanks asked" if .any means had been taken to have the; 43,000' acres' of land, at Mataura, preserved ' for the purpose of paying ; ifor, r . ■-, the ; construction of the .; Edendale ; , andj Fortrose railway, and surveyed into " s.uitable-sized sections, and thrown open for sale. Also, if acossiderable' proportion AwilLObe . . placed in the market^ ?■' 717 .V:X:-.--. '' r rt was replied that the original: intention was cot to place the land in the

market till the completion of the railway had given it additional value. When it was surveyed a proportion will be opened for sale on deferred payment. Mr McCaughan asked the Minister for. Public Works if the Otautau-Nightcaps Railway was let to bona fde. con tractors, and if any deposit was paid, and if the contract will be laid before the House, no progress having been made with the con 'xtxaictAxxAXA'AXxXX . A-' ■ A". - : ■■•'- •.- ■"y Mr Oliver replied that the contract had beenpetltbjSlr James, whohad previously ; dohe" some^'work^'for the Government; be had deposited LSO, and given security for £500"more7" "The delay had been a source of great annoyance' to the department, but the contractor was now being urged to go on with tlie work.