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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5017, 25 February 1878, Page 2

We hear that Mr Fannin has had his appointment as Immigration Officer taken from him. It was worth £00 per annum. Few, we think, will question the propriety of the Government's action in taking it. He holds, in addition, the clerkshij) of the County Council worth £200 per annum, and of the Education Board, raised recently, and as we think very unnecessarily, also to £200. It will take him all his time to get tlmnigh the duties of these two important positions satisfactorily, without having also the immigration department to attend to. We have heard nothing of the report alluded to by our contemporary, that there is a likelihood of Mr Miller of the gaol being disnissed. That would be a very different matter. There is not another official in the province who has given more complete and universal satisfaction in the fulfilment of his dutieß than Mr Miller hasj not is there one who

enjoys a larger share of public esteem. No charge oJ: political partisanship could be brought against him that the Napier public, to a man, would not look upon as grossly and unjust. The Wananga's keyhole reporter, we remember, on the occasion of the last election, vilified him for having, as alleged, expressed his opinions in favor of one of the candidates, while holding a civil service appointment ; and the article in which the vilification was contained was looked upon, by fair persons on both sides, as one of the two thoroughly disgraceful incidents of the election ; the other being the false report of Mr Sheehan's speech put forth in the columns of our contemporary by Mr Sutton's committee. The removal of Mr Miller would, as likely as not, cost the Grey party in Napier enough votes to turn an election. We do not believe, however, that it lias ever been contemplated. The story that it is in contemplation, we have little doubt, will prove to be merely a canard set afloat by the enemy.