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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1061, 29 June 1869, Page 2

Geatuities. — This is how the money goes : — lt is currently reported in the lobbies that if the Stafford Ministry remains in two votes. will be placed on the Estimates ; one of them will be £10,000, to be paid to Oolonol Whitmbrq for Sep. vices in the field ; the other £5000, to the Hon. W. Eitzherbert, for his services on the Stock Exchange. If the Stafford Ministry goes out, it is rumoured' that tlicso items will not bo found in the estimates of the new Ministry. We should have thought that pay and allowance to the tune of some £1200 a year in thjs gallant Colonel's case, and £4 4s a day' and full salary in Mr. Fitzlierbert's case, had been acknowledgment enough ipr any services cither have rendered. But such an unconsidered triile as £15,000, is nothing in thp eyes of tho Stafford Ministry, when spent on a colleague and a political supporter. On the whole, we should have preferred to sco tho money spent on the public sorvice. — Evening Post, June 21.