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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1024, 23 May 1871, Page 3

It is stated by the Grey River Argus that the changes recently made in the staff of the Hokitika Post Office are due to the discovery of irregularities on the pan of one of the late officials in that •department In a recent article, the Wellington - Evening Post strongly urges the formation of a Fishery Company. The Hawkes Bay Herald is a wonderful paper, and has some wonderiul cor respondents of whom "Our Own" at Auckland may fairly claim to be u one of the most remarkable men in the •country " This is his opinion on Mr Vogel's late financial operations :—, " Everybody almost is talking about the remarkable success of Mr "Vogel in negotiating part of the £4,000,000 '■ loan at such low interest it was all iilong thought it could not be done under 6 per cent, and the difference between that figure and 4£ gives imsneiiße satisfaction." What ever praise

Mr VogeFs scheme mav deserve, it is certainly not on the score of its cheap nes.s. Then an admirable lecture delivered by Mr Gillies, in which the present Ministry are not is thus daseribed :—" Mr Gillies gave a lecture last night at the City Hall; the lecture was only remarkable for exhibiting ignorance of iYI aeries and their institutions, which might disgrace a New Zealand .-chool-boy The lecture is lauded in a style of sickening adulation, but the flattery is thought to have been written by Mr Gillies himself." No one can doubt after reading the foregoing extracts that the correspondent is a zealous toady, but unfortunately he seems to be one of those described by Job, who " darken counsel by words without knowledge."—Evening Post, In his late charge to the Grand Jury, in Hokitika, his Honor Mr Justice Richmond, who was much affected while speaking, alluded as follows to the late Registrar of the Court, MiAbbott ; —Tn losing hiui the Colony had lost an intelligent, laborious and faithful servant. He knew what work was, and applied himself to it. The standard of duty that he set up for himself was a high one, and he acted up to it in all things. He was no eye servant, but acted from a strict sense of duty. Of my own personal sense of his loss T need nob speak, bufc I cannot allow this occasion to pass without referring to his death or fail to pay that tribute that he so well deserved.