EXTRACT FROM SCHEDULE

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 103, 15 October 1858, Page 3

EXTRACT FROM SCHEDULE

Of Acts, Ordinances,. &c., for the sale, letting, disposal and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Grown, referred to in this Act:—

1 Provikce of Nelson.—Nelson Waste Lands Bill, 1858, passed by -.Provincial Council Session V., and reserved by, .Superintendent for Governor's assent. —■ Bun-Mountain'Railway Act, 1858, passed by Provincial Council Session V., and reserved by the Superintendent for: Governor's assent.—Date assented to or put in force—at passing of this Act.

AbnicutTUßAi. Prospects.—The conviction is fast taking hold of the minds of all intelligent observers of this country's progress,, that its agricultural capabilities are about to be. developed in a very rapid and unprecedented manner. Numerous facts concur -to1 establish this conviction; There is,= far example, the inspiriting announcement which we made yesterday, that the Governmnt are prepared to bring nearly 150,000,' acres pf good cultivable lands into the market within the next two months^ all divided into -'.'moderate sized farms, so that small capitalists eager to settle down on the soil, may have ample opportunities for doing so. Then, to this we. may add, the still moi^ gratifying fact that, under' tlie .new regime at the Survey office, the surveys of the public territory are going forward at an unexampled rate ; so much so. indeed^ that the authorities there talk confidently of being able to bring something like two millions of acres of good-land into - the market iduring the course of the coming year. We have ne'xt^in corroboration, the remarkable proofs, contained in the'Registrar-General's7 recent reports, of the vast advances that have been rnade.t>flate years both in the quantity and quality of cultivation within the colony,-—advances so great, in fact, that we ourselves would hardly credit.them,' if we had notthenvpresented to us iri the unanswerable form ofsatistical tables. Add to all this, the zealous and sincere desire evinced by the Government to foster agricultural enterprise by every legitimate method. Take next into account the strong impetus that must of necessity be given to settlement arid cultivation, by. the, laying, down of our main lines of railway.— Melbourne Herald. .

Licensing Law!—ln Victoria it is intended to repeal the present licensing system. It is proposed -to transfer the power of granting licenses from the several benches of magistrates to the department of the Treasurer.. .A license once granted will be continued from time to time as tha.fees are paid arid'the holder of it conducts his house in a proper manner. Complaints against the 'conduct of a ho v itse will be heard and disposed1 before the bench as usual, and the Treasurer will act on his own responsibility in withdrawing a license. In the new Police Act the liability respecting all offences committed at all bars of public houses will be made, to rest on the landlord .in an equal degree with the party actually committing the offence.

Go»,i> Buying.—-In the early days of gold digging large sums were made by buyers ef gold | who remitted the article to England. But that I has been all changed. In reply to a surmise that ! the diggers were at the mercy of a combination of the banks as to the price of gold, the Chief ' Secretary of Victoria is.reported to have said s that. | que ftf tfo banks of Melbourne had carried on gold ! buying optrations during the past two years at an aMttot* andinosiderablo losa.