TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. [Per New Zealand Press Association.]

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 64, 11 September 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. [Per New Zealand Press Association.]

Examiner Office, Wednesday morning. The following telegrams, which should have appeared in our columns this morning, were, from an oversight in the Telegraph Office, not delivered last night : —

Wellington, September 10. Mr. Stafford to-day announced that he had formed a Ministry, consisting of himself, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Gillies, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Eeid, and Mr. Sewell. Probable, however, at least one other member will be added. It is intended also to add one, if not two, Maori members to the Executive to advise on native matters, but the greatest care and deliberation will be exercised in selecting these native members. As Ministers were only sworn in a few hours, Mr. Stafford asked the House to adjourn to Friday, to enable them to declare what business will be proceeded with, and what be allowed to stand over. Mr. Gillies would be Treasurer, Mr. Eeid Minister of Public Works. The other portfolios were not yet allotted. Mr. Brown, of Canterbury, asked if Messrs. Gillies, Fitzherbert, and Curtis had resigned their Superin tendencies ? Mr. Stafford replied, they would resign either before or at the termination of the session, therein following Mr. M'Lean's example in 1869. The House need be under no apprehension that Superintendents would be in the Government. Mr. Fox reminded the House that in Mr. M'Lean's case he had not, like Mr. Stafford, made a positive declaration against Superintendents in the Ministry. He hoped Messrs. Curtis, Gillies, and Fitzherbert would resign before the end of the session, as if anything wbb wrong in consequence of Superintendents being in the Ministry, their presence there must be especially mischievous during the session, when their offices would enable them to bring a large amount of pressure to bear. He congratulated Mr. Stafford on having his old colleagues, and the old colleague of so many other Ministers — Mr. Sewell, once more in the Ministry. After some further debate an Impress Supplj Bill of £50,000 for consolidated fund, and £20 t OOO for sM«sttfc foX&, "wsss jasswS t&rcugh &H stages. Mr. Gisborne has resigned his seat for Egmont, and a new writ has been issued.