TELEGRAPHIC.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 39, 3 June 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

[BY EILTORW' TELEQItAPir.] i » • i ' .* ■ • ■ ■ v i | [vm prrss association] Wklunoton, Juno 1. It is understood that the nnmo of thff Goyorntinont bills to bo introduced noxt sbssion will bo 'issuod boforo the H,6xwo moois.' Lands' _^ill is to'bo tiio solo oxooptioh.' * bo proriously oirbulatod v oraong-tt the Maoris. ' ' ' Tiio Post says ir-'* Wo nro pleased to bo In a position to' state tliat a (e>gram roooired joatoitiajr W'&* from tho Agout-Gonoral spooks favorably of' tho probabilities ' of floating the 'Now %iom'.' '"" '" ■ "* OnwpQnvnon, Juno 1,. '•Tho Xi'neo moruing'says .— "Wo aro in a pdaftiori to state tl^at the GeV'erniiieilit has.^ordorod ..'tbi) whole of 1 ihe heavy nuns reoommended ' by "the Commission, aud, these, together with tho necessary bmmubition ate now on' thd way out. Repnrding small 'qrma \yo have authority, (dr staling that Gevorn'mont lias ri stock of #00.0 Snidera ofordinary', and 20Q0 of tbo shorter pattern, which with anothor 1,000 of the formei 1 iiow ordoted will soon give tlie* colony control of Snider rifles. For those ' thoro are in stock 2,9,00,000^ rounds of ba'llj cartiridges Foi. ordinary rifl,os, and a larger proportion for carbines. Seme of tbis , stock has only recently arri'vod baying been' ordoi'od by government shortly after talcing oityco. In addition to the Bnulera'' 0 ovormnont ciln muster 13000 Enfiold rifles, and a large quantity ofj, Bttil-able ammunition, idnking a total o^. 21,000 rifles at their" disposal. The Government have tinder their constderation ft plan of torpedo defence, wbioh will probably bo undertaken. H is the intention of the Government as soori'ns war is declared to bring down ,a fow armed Constabulary men to each 'port ha a nucleus of a-. force of artillery j to 'place thei naval and nrtillory voHiniroera on a satisfactory footing, and _ to iconsitler the' question of enrolling militia probably with the advice of .Parliament. :It will be interesting to ikndw that the Commission of officers jthat reported (in tho defence of New Zealand had thb advantage of tho latest ohnrlß of tho colony and obtained full information from the o%.er«s some of them sciehtifio 'df both' Services, who know thd localities. They' also had befcuV tbera thp report <tf % "Cblonel Mould, lIE/'mndo after inspecting the harbors, and Yhd confidential Report mado by Sir W. few years tago .it thercqnoat df S. JjOrvoia 'which .'lias bfeon praetlically adopted by the i Cpmmittoe.' < ■' * ' j