BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3602, 8 September 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

W kllingtoit, September 7. To-day Major Atkinson was sworn in as a member pf the Executive. The * Post * understands that he will be gazetted as Minister of Immigration and Secretary of Crown Lands. The ‘ Gazette ’ publishes the Provincial Ordinances allowed by the Governor. They are as followßiverton Harbor Board, New River Harbor Board, Naseby Recreation Reserve ' Management, Riverton Government Reserve, Lower Kaikorai District Road Lands Exchange, Papakaio Railway Reserve Sale, Dunedin School Site, Education Reserves Management msd Leasing. New River and Jacob’s River Ferries Reserves Leasing, Waitahuna West District Road Compulsory Land-taking, Riverton Drill-shed Reserve Management, Palmerston School Glebe Exchange, Invercargill Rel&iilmers fcchoor Reserve Sale, byterian Church Lands Ordinance Amendment, Roads Diversion, Roads Diversion No. 2, and Castle street Diversion Ordinances. Provincial Ordinances left to their operation Hospitals, Municipal Corporations Act Amendment, 1873, Introduction, Dunedin City Council Bovrowintr Powers Extension, Clyde Corporation Borrowing Powers Extension, Otago Municipal Corporatoons Ordinances Amendment, Otago Dock Trust Ordinance, 1865, Repeal, Sawyer’s Bay Land-leasing, Rosyln Institute, and Caledonian Society of Otago Incorporation Ordinances. |® appointed.Clerk to the. Resident Magistrate’s Court, Riverton. It is understood that when ShGeorge Arney retires, Mr Prendergast will be made Chief Justice, and the Attorney-Generalship will be offered to Mr .Travers. After Mr Vogel concludes his business in Sydney respecting the electric telegraph cable he will proceed to England. ’ ’■ Sir James Fergusson proceeds to Marlborough in his yacht on Thursday; thence he Will go through the Sound to Nelson,