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[Fbom OtrE Co-respondent.] WELLINGTON,' Sept. 15 A GOLDFIELDS DEPUTATION.

The Minister of Mines was interviewed yesterday by a deputation, of goldfields members, who asked for extended protection and for a greater area where rivers are narrow so as to get more than a mile of distance in order to make up a reasonable area for dredging purposes. Mr Jyl'Growani repljedi that to hi? mind twelve months* protection was sufficient, and from his experience in 'boom times it would be a mistake to extend tie pejripd further. Wardens [ were always reasonable, and there was no suon thing as claims being jumped, though there, migbj; be applications for forfeiture w^ien ground jvas ipelfj ijTor omildi he eep his w&y to, s comply wi^h *b£ request for inpreasecl river areas, because people werJ3 not epmpejlpd to take up narrow portions of rj,ver«, Jt: would be a great injustice fa others \yhp j\ad already tekei^ up a great number of clpims ranging from twerity-five fa 'sixty 'acres. was npt iq favour of making' any aJtefaflons at pre^ sent. SLAIJGHTpR-HpU^pS. •The £41) caused, an unexpected depate yesterday, and qcoupied thft Hovsa frw the «tw* fa «mpper 'fcim». Tm defenders of ti>e better 1 plas? of flawght«r-; house simply spent fho day in tailing the questions pi just-JP?. Pf local gutfhqjity, of expediency and) pi compws^taopMIDLAND RAILWAY. The Public Account* CommiMee is making very slow progress wjtiji the Midland Railway to business. It is taking a great >dea|| of evidence, and will not report before the end of next week. " What Mr Allen faldl about the evidence, as I reported on Tuef^ day evening, is all the injormat|on a« t<» details at present available. ■ THE PREMIER. That the Premier will not go to England or America, next mentli, aa hag been so"industrioußlv reported, may be ivfce\\ for. granted. Anpthef indicg/tiQn of the desire 1 to terminn't^ the session *a§ a§ possible was given |n the early .tours of this morning by the, way "in^ Vftjcjfi. tjif> Slaughterhouse Bill wa« ' "" rallied " thrpugb. is the pause of tibia haste, it is not fcr the j-'easop, generally assigned, I feel certain.

'_ BIRTH. ' fIKHTTE.— -Sept. ja, 1900, ati ihe residence of i Mr T. W«kedin,'.Duvau"6h«lle'«, the wife of ' G. E. "Whyte, of Cheviot— a son, both doing ) well. __ MARRIAGE. JRTAW-O'HARA.— Sept. 12, at ihe Pro- : Cathedral, Chrißtchutob, by the Very Key Dean Foley, Miohael Frederic, eldest son of Mr M. Ryan, Broadfield, to Susan Margaret, third daughter of Mr Joa. O'Hara, Bydenham. "~~ '. DEATHS. t^YEßS.— Sept. 15, at his residence, Avonside, Aaron Ayers, the dearly beloved husband of Isabella Ayers, in his sixty-fourth year. Melbourne) and Sydney papers please ' copy. JBEAL.— Sept. 18, at East Eyreton, Henry ■ Baal; aged sixty-nine yeaw. iBURBON.— Sept. 12, accidentally drowned in fl»e Waipaoa River, Gisborne, Albert Bur--1 ion, formerly of Ohristchuroh ; aged sixty- • Jour years. BIARSHALIi.— Sept. 14, at Lyttelton, Chris- ; tina Marshall, in her sixtieth year. |RAE. — Sept. 11, at Wanganui, Ann Elizabeth, , Reliot of the late C. J. Rae, late of Christchuroh; aged aixty-six. fftHß Frienda of the late John Gordon are IX. respectfully invited Vo attend His Funeral, meeting the hearse on Sumner Road at 4 p.m. To-morrow (Sunday), for the Public Cen*tery. W. BADGLIFFE, Undertaker. 9886 LATEST SHIPPING, '•+ LTfTTELTON. AiRIRIEVEID. Sept. I*s— H«raltb, " s.s., 856 tons, Brophy, bom Greynwuilh. Unioni Steamship Company, Sgenta. • Sepi. IS— Janet) Wicoll, a.a., 496 tons, Brown, from Timaru, Oamaru and Dunedin. Union flteanrahip 'Company, agents. Sepi 15— Rotoanahana, a.s., 901 tons, Manuring, - from Wellington. Union. Steamship Company, agents. Passengers — 'Misses LouisBon (2), (Pawler, Rule (2), «und M'Naib, Meadames IPtatanan, ©still, "Wheeler, Stringer, Jamieson, jLouisson, ftoso, Taffe, Taylor, Rule, Laing and M'Menamin', Colonel Eatill, Messrs Darling, Dean, Isaao, Owen, Reese, Davie, Ancell, PowJer, Troup, "Whittaker, Wheeler, Purdre, IWhitcombe, Thomsoni, Taylor, Hart, Hunt, ILomason, 'RuJe and son, Fox, Myers, Lewis, IBitohde, Master Stringer and twenty-on« ateerlage. Sept. 15-Jionowat, a.a., 2187 tons, Ohatfield, ' Prom flydney, via Welling'tom . Union, SteamIphip Oamipany, . agents. •Paasengera— JMissea SaJ'keia, K«mp, Flesher, Starknoss, Mf'Callum, Ram«y, Dutton, Straok, Bell, Sheard andi WilBon, IMesdiames Howie, Sauddera, Watt, R. jOaaneroiQ, Glark »nd family, Swind'ley, Seager,. lA. Cook and ohild, Thomas, Biirson (2), Gillaniders, and F. da 0. (Mialeb, Hons C. O. Boweii, J. Tl iPeacock and B. O. J. Slevena, Dt Pli^er, Messrs Angus, J. F. (Ellis, T. A. ElHs, T. H. tltoohie, T. Miiiridge, Wallace, R. H. Pope, Vresedex, Rothe, R. Porter, James Mills, S. C. Dope, J. IDawsow, R. Davidson', iStrack, Clark, B. J. Alexander, M'Gill, W. H. Townsend, Duthbert, H. Omm, Jamieson, Milne, Rhodea, P. de O. Malet and thirty-nine steerage. Sept. 13— Filora, ».e., 838 tons, Beaumont, from Dunedin. Union Steamship Company, bgenta. Passengers— 'Missea (Hutten, Fahey, G- Garden, Fraser, Treger wad Manning, iMjesflamea Norman Grant, IE. Ward and Mackenzie, [Rev H. T. Purchas, Messrs Norman A. Grant, IP. 6. Brown, >Sealey, Barnett, Mackenzie, ABadQcsr, F. Tains and ten steerage. Sept. 15 — Pukaici, b.s., 917 tons, Lambert, from Westport. Union Steamship Company, agents. i ', Six' steamers arrived at Lytteiton this morning — the Herald from Greymouth alboub 4 *.m., (the Janet Nicoll from the aoufh at 6.15 a.m., IRatomaWna, irorn Wellington at 6.30 a.m., she Monowai from iSydney, via Wellington, at 7 ajp., the Mora from Dunedin at 9.20 aim., land the Pukaki from Westport at 9.50 a.m.