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Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 348, 7 April 1868, Page 2

We take the following from the (Hugo Daily Times, March 28 :— " Our Victorian telegrams, published in another column, contains an announcement which will cause very great regret in this province, if it is acted out— namely, that Mr Wilson Gray has been appointed as District Judge at Geelong. Mr Gray, as District Judge iv Otago, has, we believe, given unmixed satisfaction to all classes. The estimate of Mr Gray's abilities which has been formed by the General Government is attested by a single fact — he was asked and re-asked to accept the position of Acting Judge in the Supreme Court for the Otago and .Southland District, during the absence of Mr Justice Chapman, who will shortly visit England. If we are not misinformed, however, Mr Gray, in declining this offer, was not in the least degree influenced by any idea of a Victorian appointment ; and if he now accepts .that appointment, he will retv m to Victoria esteemed by all Otagans, and his absence will be regretted by them. On dit, that the Acting Jndgeship here has been offered to Mr Dudley Ward, the District Judge at Wellington."