SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 325, 28 May 1875, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

(From our own correspondent). \The appeared in'our issue of Saturday last :—-]-. v : i ■ ' The only information reliable re the crisis is obtainable through the press. Rumor is very busy; biifc the folio wing pretty correctly describes the, negotiations as far as they have gone. Eeid has been offered the post of Provincial Secretary, with the control of the Laud Department; and the position of leader of the Groverument, and his acceptance -was urged not only by Bastiugs personally but by mem.ber3 who voted \viih.£eid. Mr. Keid declines on the ground thai, his consent might be constraed 'into .too eager a desire for office: The i * Times' &rys that; when co'mmimicated with, Eeid was told that no immediate reply ■was wanted: Ueid.stated that he -would offer no factious opposition to the Governmerit of his successor. After this refusal, things took-a more definite shape, and Bastings succeeded in filling up four seats, as follows: Bastings, Provincial Secretary, and Secretary of Works; Fish, Commissioner of .Railways; Wood, without office (to represent Southland); Sumptcv. -without office (to represent north Otago). The Treasurership is not filled up, andßastings isexperiencingsomedifEculty -in securing the Services of a suitable member; lieeves was asked to. take the office, but 'he declined. Bastings was very anxious to get G'reen to jbirij bivt Green-attached coneditions which Bastings could not co'mply with; 3?Lsh would hsve been Treasurer, but a Tery decided objection to his occupying the post—"which was made known to Bastings—led to a hew office being assigned him. There will be no Groldfields Secretary; SDd Provincial Solicitorship will likely be offered (oHaggitt. Nd. one is yet named as Secretary for Lands.