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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1468, 30 October 1872, Page 2

A local paper informs us that Mr Brogden paid a visit to Picton a few days ago, and was driven through the Tua Marina Valley to Massacre Hill. The object of this visit was to inspect the works now being proceeded with, and to make inquiry concerning charges it had been said were brought against him by the men in in his employ. It is stated the complaints of the men had been much exaggerated.

In an article on the new Premier, the Press, Oct. 19, says :—We have never known such an amazing bundle of inconsistencies —to use an exceedingly mild i-erni. It seems the great object of Mr Waterhouse's existence to falsify in office everything he ever said out of it. He joined the Government immediately after vowing to the Council that no earthly consideration should induce him to do so; an J short as his career has yet been, it has been woi thy of the commencement. At every slop he has taken he has trampled on his former principles. He inveighed against Mr Fox for holding the Premiership without a portfolio; and that is precisely the situation in the Government which he has chosen for himself. He declared that the interference of Minis teis in each other's departments was incompatible with efficient administration ; }-et he proposes to discharge the duties of any of his colleagues who prefer absenting themselves from Wellingt<m. And his first statement as Premier announces the intended levival during the recess of a Ministerial office and the creation ot two absolutely new ones; although in this very session he has denounced the creation of such offices, otherwise than by Act of the Assembly, as directly opposed to constitutional usage, as detrimental to the public service, and as affording obvious opportunities for political corruption. From the Sydney Morning Herald, 18th October, we take the following: —"The A.S.N. Company's steamship Wonga Wong* arrived yes'.erday from Cleveland Bay, after a splendid passage of 110 hours. She brings 200 returned diggers, all of whom give most deplorable accounts of the prospects at the Charters Towers gold fields. The A.S.N. Company under the peculiar circumstances of the case, have brought them back at very low rates, in fact for very little over the coat of victualling." The French Geographical Society, after being somewhat incredulous about" Mr Stanley's discovery of Dr Livingstone, is now having a gold medal engrossed for him. This will cine any pain caused to that gentleman, and will obliterate the fault made by the Paris journals, viz., that Mr Stanley had discovered "Messieurs Livingstone and