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continuance' of v the : ministerial crisis. an incendiary committed A FOR MURDER. (jb'KO.U OUR OWN COKI'iai'OXDK.ST.) .'*" Christchuhcu, Monday. The inquest on the late fire has been concluded,. ami the jury returned a verdict of wilful -murder against Darby Maher, the incendiary. The Ministerial crisis continues. Mr Stewart declined to form a Ministry, and Mr Jollie was again sent fork He consulted with Mr Williams, but the latter declined because he had not been sent"for in the first: instance. Nothing has been ..done towards the formation of an Executive, the arrangements being still in the hands of Mr Jojlie. " The ' { f Press "of to-day expresses its unbelief in the rimibrtthat the Superin? tendentj^Jiad promised the West Coast members' to spencWL6so,ooo on a railway to [the West Coast, and to give up any claim for the balance of the LlOO,OOO supposed to be due fromfWestland to the Provincial Treasury, if the "West Coast members would not oppose his selling land there, and allow his estimates to : pass ; and that this accounts for the whole of the Westland membera voting for the Government. -|^^ c same time it alleges that some propOTaT' for a railway to the West Coast has been made, as it has .been already spuken^of in the Westi Goast journals ; antl, JTOßher on, ijfsays it will not forward the scheme if th'eimpressiongets abroad that it has been'first used to influence votes of of the members of Council. . ?I^>-
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Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 137, 27 November 1866, Page 2
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