The roundabout, circumlocutary manner iv which the R.M.Coutt fines reach their proper destination is absurd. In Wanganui the cull i' t flues for October aud November amounting £S 8s Od have just been received, they are sent first to Wellington, and pro vide work for goodness knows how nuny officials before they finally reach the Town Clerk. In New Plymouth a letter was re ceived from the Treasury stating that fines amounting to one shilling had been remitted by the Government Why cannot the se sums be paid by the Clerk of the Court into the Borough Fund Account here, and his accounts examined and audited in the usual way, instead of all this red-tapeism?

Enquiries are being made daily as to why the committee appoiuttd at the meeting held on the up river question do nob call another meeting. It^vas understood when the meet ing adjourned that they should not do so umil Mr Rochfort reported, but it is ques tionable now whether they need to wait for that. Ihe Native Minis ter has said that it is likely the Government will assist in the matter of clearing the river, and Mr Rochfort cannot say more. A number of gentlemen are in teresting themselves in the steamer ques tion, and we hear now of another gentleman willing to invest £100 in shares. All that is now required is a little push and energy on the part of the Wanganui public and the affair is us good as settled.
