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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 491, 8 September 1882, Page 13

Or ago Lakd Boabd.— At the sitting of the Board on Wednesday a petition was received frona the settlers at Kuri Bush asking for the opening of land on the deferred- payment system. A license to search for minerals over six square miles at Doubtful Sound was granted to Thomas Gilroy, for 12 months, at Id an acre. The application of James Walker that the land adjoining and n >rth of sections 86 and 43, block VI., Wyndham, be surveyed and sold, was referred to Chief Surveyor, for a survey of the land in section* of two and three acres. The application of James M'Key that B'ction 4, block IX., Maerewheuui, be opened for sale was declined. The applicition of Jacob Williams for a coil-raining lease, Waikaks, was declined. The application of John Warner to purchase sixteen acres, block V., Cromwell, was recommended to the Government for favourable consideration. Government was recommended to set aside sections 72, 74. and 76, block 11., Glenkenich, for sile on de r erred-paymentw, at 30s per aero, section 73 to be sold as pastoral. On the applicaion of W. Cumming, it was resolved to grant a license for one year, at a rental of £1, of block XXL, railway reserve, Dunkeld township. It was decided to request the Governmeut tn set aside for gale on de-ferred-payment sections 12 to 17 inclusive, block XIII., Greenvale, at an upset price of 30s per acre. Certificates of application for agricultural leases were approved, as follows : — C. Colclough, sections lA and 2a, block V., Wakefield ; W. Bameston, section 3, block 111., Tarras. Applicati ns to purchase land hel 1 under agricultural leaaes were made as follows :— G. Scullon, sections 1 and 2, block 111 , Mid Wakatip : executors of the late Charles Nichols, section 9, block 111., Mid Wakatip.— Applications to purchase to be recommended for the Governor's approval. There was something very much like to a panic amo.ig the commercial classes of Bombay in the early part of the past week, when it became known that fears were entertained in Europe for the safety of the Suez Canal. The Canal has been open only twelve years or so, and yet it has so largely altered the character of commercial transactions throughout the world, that, if it were now closed fora considerable time, commerce would le paralysed, and the world would seem to have been thrown back in its course for half a century at least. It happens that we have jjst at band the figures showing; the amount of tr iffic that passed through the canal in the yearlßßl. There were 2.727 ships, representing a gross tonnage of 5.794,401 ton', that passed through the canal in 1881, and the nett profits for the shareholdeis in the concern amounted to very little short of a million pounds sterling. Now, we ask ourselves, is not this immense traffic — this mine of wealth to thousands, in itself an actual security for the safety of the Canal? None but the common enemy of our race could bring about such a gigantic disaster, — Bombay Catholic Examiner.