TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLII, Issue 4296, 18 November 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[PBB Pm jB^BOBA^n '''J||rcKmDMov'. 17. Two fresh oases «ißoa||it fitor ‘ hare occurred amongst at the Quarantine Station* Mosti of the saloon passengers are southerners. Thfre are great complaints amongst them /about not being separated from the Government immigrants during thevoyage.. Mr Day, of .the imn of Messrs Heywood and 00., Christchurch, has sent a petition to the Superintendent protesting. Mr Collins, of Nelson, aged 80, is m a low statrTjf mind, and possessed by a fear that unless he is removed within a few days he will die. He is not suffering from disease. The passengers hare been put to great inconvenience for want of water, and proper sanitary convenience. The health officer has consented to the petition of the saloon passengers by the Hydaspes for release. Gbahamseown, Nov. 17.

The firing for district representatives for the Thames Scottish match took place to-daj— Campbell, 87; M'Lean, 85; QomejMi. Weixinotos, Not. 17.

The New Zealand Times this morning announces that Mr Bowen, Resident; Magistrate, at Christchurch, has been appointed a Minis* ter of the Crown, and denounces the appoint* ment. The Times says:—“Weare not aware what claim he (Mr Bowen) has. He may be an able man, but we object, m most emphatic terms, to gentlemen being taken from the rank and file of the Civil Service, and pitchforked into the position of Minister of the Crown. The outcry that was made in the case of Mr Gisborne’selevationandretirementisae nothing to what ought to be made on account of this latest Ministerial performance. The country groans under the weight of the Civil Service. It is made subject to tribute in the most literal and unmistakeable way, and if it submits to have its Ministers elevated for a season from the ranks of the Civil Service, and then having served their purpose, retreating again within its lines, it may abandon all hope of economical or efficient Government. We are friends and supporters of the Government, but Ministers are not infallible,'and they are liable to err, and in this case their error is of a most serious character. .. We can conceive of no action, rightly considered, so well calculated to bring the Government into contempt as this one. Madame Goddard gave her farewell performance last night. She had a most enthusiastic reception. The stage was literally covered with bouquets. The Scotch fantasia was encored. Madame Goddard leaves for Dnnedin to-day. Dr Pollen and Major Campbell, Clerk of Parliament, accompany his Excellency in his yacht. Sir James Ferguson did not grant the pardon of Alexander M'Douald, but left the matter to be decided by the Marquis of Norman by. It is understood that Ministers have decided to recommend the Marquis of Normanby to grant the pardon. The Veteran Corps fired for district representatives with the following resultCrowe, 87 5 Bannister, 85; Scott, 83. With regard to the performance of the interprovincial mail service so as to obviate the necessity of the San Francisco boats coming down the coast, the Post states that the General Government have declined to pay £2300 per annum asked by the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company, and intimate that they will pay no more than £l2O per trip, making the arrangement from month to month.

Nelson, Nov, 17. Thirty families of immigrants will shortly be sent to Kiaramea as a nucleus of a special settlement. They will be ensured eight shillings a day for three days in a week for six months,and fifty-five acres of land are to be leased to each family for two shillings per acre, and at the end of fourteen years to become their freehold.

The Provincial Government is advertising for a £27,000 loan for harbour improvements. Dunedin, Nov. 17.

This prisoner Gatt, who was sentenced at the last session of the Supreme Court to six months’ imprisonment for killing a calf, was discharged to-day. The last official act of the Governor before i leaving Wellington was to pardon Gatt. Post Chalmbbs, Nov. 17. The barque Hadda, frpm Riverton to Lyttelton, passed the Heads at noon.