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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 456, 15 October 1877, Page 2

The new Sir George Grey Ministry, which. at fir. t, a-sumed a very orttele form, is gradual y being fashioned more in accordance with common sense. It was not hkely that any ' •overnnient could prove satisfactory to tin* whole Colony that failed to represent every principal division faiily, nor, indeed, could it be expected to meet with sutii ienc support in the House to keep it in power. That the early doom of the Sir George (h\-y Ministry, as originally constituteel, would hav\: been inevitable was pretty g.-uera ]y admitted : bat the.access on to the Treasurer.-lnp o; Mr. iiallauee fi leel ;i hiatus that wi ukl have been fatal to the well-being of the new (iovernin nt. To-day's special telegrams inform us that Canterbury, wh > had jiut cause of compkvnt, has now two ivpreteiratives ia the Mini-try. Mr. Fisher will probably aet as Commissioner of Customers ai.el Postmaster - General, which office*, we think, he would be to fill satisfactorily. S r Gen'ge Grey has 10-t no time, and the information containeel in oar te.egraphie news with reference t > his movements \v ill be read with general satisfaction. A respectable-louking young man of about 21 years of age, named Cnristopher Shuttleworth, pleaded guilty at the iiesident Magistrate's Court thu moining to having, on the ti h ins; ant, stol n a gokl ring from the Alliance Ili'teJ, the piopcrty of Air. John Ross, and valued .-it 1/2 10=. J.he prisoner, it appeareel from ihu evidence, took the ring out of a .-mall box in a Jargj chest, and pawned it at Mr. \• oss' lor iUs. Mis Worship ihe llesieleut Ma_ri&t ate s-entenced the prisoner "to two months' iniprisonm nr. Geoige '-veenfield was fined os. for allowing a horse to wander at Jarge .yesterday. The mtonng of the Hospital Committee, wh cu Mas to have been helel to-moivow evening, has been postponeel titl Friday evening next, in older not to interfere with Mrs. .New.shani's concert to take place to-n orrow eveni g for the benefit of the Hospital funds. The Mayor of Oaniaru has oalled a meeting oi citizens for 'lhuisday next to concert measures for r.d-ing mnds for the purpose of assisting those who are famine-stricken in India. The whole of the British dominions seem to be taking up this matter right well, ami are evidencing laudable sympathy for the starving millions of their K'bow-creatures. AVe feel sure that there wdl be a hearty response to the request of the Mayor.