HALF THE PROCEEDS OF SALE OF CONFISCATED LAND HANDED OVER TO THE PROVINCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2189, 1 April 1874, Page 3

HALF THE PROCEEDS OF SALE OF CONFISCATED LAND HANDED OVER TO THE PROVINCE.

The following letter from the Hon. Mr. Yogel to his Honor tbe Superintendent has been banded to us. for publication ;—

General Government Offices, Wellington, March 25, 1874. Sis, — 1. I venture to call yonr attention to the appended extract from the speech delivered by your Honor at tbe opening of tbe session of the Provincial Counoii of Taranaki. My object in so doing being, to make clear some points as to which I fear I was not sufficiently explicit daring my interview with yon in Wellington. " 2. As to the opening up of land for settlement, what I'deßired to explain to your Honor was that any assistance I should be able to render could only be given in connection with immigration. That is to say, under some plan by which the land npon whioh money was advanced should be made speoially available for purposes of immigration.

3. My views upon tbat snbjeot generally are stated in a letter addressed to the Superintendent of Wellington, a printed copy of which was forwarded to you.

4. My prinoipal object at present is, how. ever, to remove tbe misapprehension whioh seems to exist iv your Honor's mind concerning the confiscated lands.

5. I was unsuccessful in making my meaning clear if, from what passed at oar interview, your Honor supposed that the General Government intended to use the proceeds of the sales of ooußsoated lands for colonial purposes, or rather, as yonr Honor put it, in your Bpeeoh, " required"" the ihbney for colonial purposes. On .the contrary, what I wished your Honor to understand was, that there are certain liabilities hanging over the confiscated lands, including appropriations by tbe House; and that, when those liabilities and appropriations had been satisGed, the respective balances wonld be available for the Provinces. 6. As yonr Honor mentioned iv the speech to the Conncil, a vote of Five Thousand Ponds (£5,000) was taken against the confiscated lauds for roads in Taranaki, as well as Twelve Hundred Pounds (£1,200) in'paymont of an advance on account of the Waitara Bridge ; in addition to whiuh, half the cost of the bridge over the Patea River is being defrayed out of tbe proceeds of the confiscated lands.

7. I am glad to be able to inform your Honor that since our interview, there is so obvious an increase in the value of the confiscated Lands, that the General Government have come to the conclusion that they will bo able at once to put apart a portion of the proceeds for the benefit of the Provinces, leaving one-half to be applied in meeting liabilities and satisfying appropriations.

8. I shall address your Hcnor further npon the subject.. But I may now say that it is proposed to band over one-quarter of the proceeds to the Provinces, for Provincial appropriation ; another one-quarter being expended either by local Road Boards or undor the direction of the Public Works Department opon roads in the district and for the benefit of the lands disposed'of. It is proposed that this arrangement shall date back to the Ist January, 1874, so that, under it, I shall have the pleasure of remitting toyour Honor a portion of the proceeds of the late land sales at Patea.

9. T shall be glad if yonr Honor will give to this letter publicity eqnal to that given to the speech to the Provincial Council. — I have, &o. $

Julius Yogel. His Honor the Superintendent of Taranaki.

Extract from the speech of his Honor F. A. Carrington, Esq., at the opening of the twentythird session of the Provincial Council of Taranaki. " I did no( fail to point out to the Hon. Mr. Yogel the impossibility of onr administering this laud to advantage through our want of funds, and I told him that I feared there would be ditSpulty in dealing with it in any other way than by raising money on it, or by forming special settlements on deferred payments, in which latter case Mr. Yogel told me the Government would help us in tbe cost of making the necessary surveys and in utilising the forest. The money so advanced to be refunded to the Government as tbe land from time to time bB paid for. Mr. Yogel would not consent to give any portion of the money about to be derived from the sale of confiscated land in our Provinoe to aid in tbe surveying and laying out of this newly aoqoired bush land, as the money was all required for colonial* purposes, but he told me that so boou as the open land on the coast be acquired it shall be handed over to ub for administration, and this, I have reason to belteve, will shortly be done."

Greatiiead's Cure for Diphtheria. — The Melbourne Age of the 20th February, says — " Diphtheria in a malignnnt form having appeared at Yea recently, Mr. Grentheud was invited to that town, as it was found that under ordinary medical treatment the patients rapidly succumbed to the full disease, and it was hoped he would be able to stay the epidemic by his mode of treatment. Incompliance with thocall Mr.Groalhoad went to Yea on the 4th instant, and a correspondent states that from that time to the 16th, he attended thirty-two oases, of which he cured thirty, while only two died. Even io the fatal oases it is Blated that the pntimitn had been attacked some time previous to his arrival, and were so worn with the disease that very liule hopo oould be entertained of their recovery. That the disease was diphtheria is vouched for by a leading medical gentleman from Melbourne, whose opinion was sought, and Dr. Ferguson of Alexandra, conferred with Mr. Great head on Saturday, and expressed his unqualified belief in the efficacy of the oare. A meeting took place on Monday last, in tho Commercial Hotel, Yea, for the purposo of advancing the aiitidoio in publio estimation ; Mr. Webster, ex-president of tho Council, in the oh.tir. He alluded to the fact that Mr. Greathead had snccesßfully turned the tido of death from their doors, and had conferred a great boon on every one present by removing further fear of the dangerous malady. On tho motion of Mr. Tompkins, seconded by Mr. McLresh, it was resolved — ' That this meeting declares it to be beyond all doubt that Mr. Greathend's antidote, whon promptly and properly applied, is a safe and infallible remedy for diphtheria.' The resolution was declared carried amid loud and prolonged acclamation." " May it please your honor," soid a lawyer, addressing one of the city judges, " I brought the prisoner from gaol on a habeas corpus." " Well,'' said a fellow in an under tonr>, who stood in the rear of tho court, " those lawyers will say anything. I saw the man got out of a cab at the <;o»rt door." Eztkact oi Meat.— Bones, of course 1