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fPBOM OtTB OWN COBBEBPONDBNT.] WELLINGTON, August 17. The " New Zealand Times " to-day says it is authorised to state that there is no truth whatever in the bundle of canards so indus triously propagated. These canards were that the Local Publio Works Bill and Rating Amendment Bill would be dropped, that subsidies to local bodies would be continued for six months longer out of the land fund, so far as it would go, and that Parliament would be prorogued at the earliest possible date, perhaps next week.. The "Times" declares that such wholesale slaughter as that indicated meant nothing more nor less than a flagrant dereliction of duty on the part of the Government, and the shameful abandonment of measures indispensable to the proper administration of publio affairs. The "Tunes" admits that the question of the expediency, of continuing the subsidies to local governing bodies under certain circumstances that might arise had been under consideration, and that it is possible the prorogation may take place by Friday week. Notwithstanding this dis claimer, I have every reason tb believe that my telegram of last night is strictly accurate. t I hear that the West Coast Settlements Bill is to be strenuously resisted by the Oppo sition, but I do not attach muoh weight to this, as the session is too far gone for a good party fight to be practicable.
THE WAIMATE PLAINS CON STABULARY.
