LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1961, 18 November 1874, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[ANGIO-ATTSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.] Wellington, Nov. 17. The " Times" this morning announces that Mr Bowen, Resident Magistrate at Ohristchurch, has been appointed a Minister of the Crown. [Minister of Justice, we Buppose. — Ed.] It denounces the appointment, and says it is not aware what claim he has to the appointment ; he may be an able man, " but we object in the most emphatic terms to gentlemen being taken from the rank and file of the civil service and pitchforked into the position of a Minister of the Crown. Theoutcry that waa raised in the case of Gisborne's elevation and retirement ia aa nothing to what ought be made on account of thia latest ministerial performance. The country groans under the weight of the civil service. i It is made subject to tribute in a moat literal and unmistakeable way, and if it submits to have its ministers elevated for a aeaaon from the ranks of the civil aervice, and then having Berved their purpose, retiring again within its lines, it may abandon all hopea of economical or efficient Government. We are frienda and supporters of the present Government, but Ministera are not infallible, and they are likely to err, and in thia case their error is of a serious character." The appeal case, Hokitika and Greyraouth Tramway Company against the County of Westland occupied the Court all yesterday, and is not yefc concluded. Sir J ames Fergusson did not grant -J;he pardon of Alexander M'Donald. It is understood that the Ministry will recommend the granting to the Marquis of Normanby. Dunedin, Nov. 17. The following are the nominations for the St. Andrew's Handicap : — JNelmes, Faughaballagh, Goodman'a Kathleen and Verbena, Lecksire'a Oongreve, Hutchinson's Mabel, Noaworthy's Tadmor and Traitor, Pritchard's Pertobe, Broadway's Misa Rowe, Cotton'a Envy, Haatie'a Lybia, Coombes' Right Bower. Sixteen nominations have been received for the Spring Handicap, including Mabel, Envy, Tadmor, Traitor, and Somnambula. The Hurdle Race will be a walk-over for Kildare. Nelson, Nov. 17. Thirty families of immigrants will ahortly be sent to Karamea as nucleus of a special settlement. They will be ensured ei|,ht shillings a day for three days a week for the first six months, forty-five acres to be leased to each family for two shillings per acre, which at the end of fourteen years is to become their own property without further payment. The Government are advertising for L 27,000 of a loan for harbor works. Dunedin, Nov. 17. Young Gait, who, last aeaaion of the Supreme Court, was sent to gaol for six months for killing a calf, was discharged to-day. The pardoning of Gait was the last official act of the Governor before leaving Wellington. Wellington, Nov. 17. The Veteran corps fired for the district representatives : — Crowe, 87 ; Bannaater, 85 ; Scott, 83. With regard to the performance of the Interprovincial Mail Service, ao aa to obviate the neceßsity of San Francisco boats coming down the Coast, the "Post states that the General Government declined to pay L 2300 per annum asked by the New Zealand Steam Company, and intimate that they will pay no more than Ll2O per trip, making an arrangement from month to month.