SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3702, 5 November 1880, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

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WELLINGTON.

This day.

;■'"'■ ■; ) 1^';:/M4.KO*/^FiratiHQ:;BiMNO.. :( The AttorneyrGenerai has Wired from Auckland that both Means Swanson and Wood are very dissatisfied at the appointment of. Agent-General. Captain Colbecjc is not much put put, .|» be does not intend to seek re-election for Marsden, whilst the junior member for City West, Mr Hurst,, says the appoihtment of Sir Dillon Bell is nothinff short of a political job. Already the shifting opinions, of members are haying some effect at the seat of GoTernment, and now every day accelerates the certainty that there must be a reconstruction, or, if not, a "motion " in what Faddy Murphy generally calls the "Kaliineti" r]' vr' : '; TVA '''.:?' THE ATJDITOB GENEBAL. Mr Fitzgerald, the principal member of the Commissioners of Audit, has got a trip on the cheap to Australia for four months, and comment is freely indulged in that the Government had sundry reasons for giving him such a lengthened holiday. ■ - ■ „ / ; ;: ■;■ THB NEW ZEALAND TIMES. ■ .-• ■ ; Mr Chantrey Harris* formerly of the Thames, and at present nominal owner of the New Zealand Time-},' is beginning to find that the proprietor of a newspaper dors not always hare plain sailing. He tails me that already he has lost close on £BCO in the speculation, and this sum no doubt will be further increased if Government advertisements and stronger public support is not accorded to the Kew Zealand " Thunderer." . OPPOSITION JOXTHNAIS. • The Ministry are sorely troubled at the way in which the resident correspondentl) of the Empire City get important items of news connected with various matters of departmental and public matters, but this is only natural, looking at the shabby manner in which mauy of the civil servants have been treated at the hands of the present Ministry. The whole body are so indignant that they will render all their aid to get "the present advisers consigned to the cold shades of, Opposition when the House meets. ANOTdIB.LAKD JOJB. •' Mr Nelson, one of the Northern Native Land Purchase Commissioners, arrived by the steamer Tairoa to-day, and it is reported that he was specially sent for by • Mr Gill, Under-Secretary, with a view of entering at once into business conneoted with the Murimutu lands, which Moorhouse and pthers are trying to,secure. HEW lOBDS. An increase in the Legislative Councillors is contemplated, and both Nelson and Canterbury interests wilt be; well'U&kied/ after. The annual allowances to the members of the Upper House is certain to be abolished next year. Already the Otago Daily Times, and other southern journals are agitating in that direction. ■?.;'; .-, v> ; MB GEO. MCLEAN, B'Z

This troublesome member is likely to resign his seat for Waikouiti after his return from Melbourne. He purposes going to England. . .