THE NEW COLONIAL TREASURER.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 391, 5 July 1866, Page 3

THE NEW COLONIAL TREASURER.

Rebeeeihg to the appointment of Mr Jollie, as a member of the Executive, the Lyttelton Times, says:—“ We wish we could think that in hi* hands Northern expenditure will be limited by a thorough regard to the rights of the South Island. W e fear, on the contrary, that whatever policy may be adopted for the North will find in the new Treasurer an exponent who will not hesitate to throw burdens upon the community. Mr Jollie has always been a strong partizan of (ho war policy, and has always constantly main* tained the duty of the South to lend all its re* sources to accomplish the repression of rebellion in the other island. He has also been a determined anti-provincialist, and would not be deterred from, but rather impelled towards, any policy of finance which would cripple, provincial Governments. Not only in finance, but in the working out of every part of the constitution, Mr Jollie may be expected to use his influence in the direction of abolishing or degrading provincial institutions. It is hard to understand how Mr Paterson, who spoke at Dunedin of provincial expansion, and Mr Jollie, holding strong views in the opposite direction, can be colleagues in the Ministry of the colony. That the post of Treasurer should be designed for Mr Jollie will be a surprise to the public, who have not credited that gentleman with any power or experience iu finance. Can it be that some recent correspondence about surplus revenues, between Mr Jollie, and the Press newspaper, has had the double effect of dividing him from the present ostensible leader of his party, and of recommending him to the head of the Government as a financier ?”

The Lost Mb Dobson. —The last search for Mr Dobson, at the Grey, has not resulted in the finding of his body. The Grey Argus, lyth June says :—“ The search for Mr Dobsou, which has been prosecuted with ceaseless perseverance and care, lias for the present been abandoned, as not the faintest elue has been discovered of him if living, or of his body if he has been murdered. The bush has been examined by a large party of surveyors, police, and Maoris, and u is the opinion of all that, had the missing gentleman met only with some accident he must have been fouad. But evidences have been found which, strengthen the opinion that Mr Dobson Isas met tout play. During the search some masks, evidently those used by bushrangers, were found not far from the track, and it is known that a gang of desperadoes wore in the district through winch Mr Dobson had to pass, and on the same day. The Government now oilers a large reward for the recovery of the body, and for such information as may lead to the apprehension of the murderer as murderers.”