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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2148, 25 March 1870, Page 2

How the Money Goes.—A sample of the advantages wo derive from our connection with the Imperial Government and its illustrious representative, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., was furnished yesterday by an auction sale. When the visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh was in contemplation, the Stafford Government bought from Captain Benson a very handsomely-finished six-oared boat, 35 feet long, and fitted with all the appliances deemed requisite by “leaders in the land,” to cut a dash in the eyes of the vulgar when they show themselves on the water; in order that his Excellency might be enabled to go on board the Galatea in a style, consonant with his own ideas of his importance. The price paid for the boat was LBO, and she was used on two occasions, and, no further use appearing likely to arise, for her, she was sold yesterday at auction for L2B, so that tlm two trips made by the Queen’s representative cost the colonists about L 25 each, or say, fifty guineas for enabling Sir George to ]»ay two vice-regal visits in' etate.-i-ifwnM^