SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 7 October 1880, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

RECEIVED LAST NIGHT:

: OFF. ' ' : ' - MORE RETRENCHMENT .

Wellington, Wednesday

Mr Charles Brown, Civil Commissioner on the West Coast, has received notice that his services will be dispensed with at the end of present month. It is reported on good authority that two high officials in the Constabulary whose united salaries amount to £ISOU, will get the conge next month.

Hawera, Wednesday Night,

Major Brown has retired from the Civil Comraissioncrsliip, and goes into business at New Plymouth and Waitara.

INSPECTORS DISMISSED. Wellington, Wednesday,

All the Inspectors in Canterbury and Westland are to be dismissed after the 31st December.' This will necessitate the retirement of Sub-Inspector O’Donnell (Christchurch), Inspector Pender (Timurn), Inspector Hast (Greymoiilh), Inspector Buckley (Kaiapoi), and Inspector Reilly (Hokitika).

MR MANSFORD. ; Wellington, Wednesday. Mr Mansford, R M;, is dangerously

PLOUGHMEN RETURNING. RELEASE OF PRISONERS.

Wellington, Wednesday

The Government wrote a very kind letter to the celebrated West Coast chief Wiremu Kingi Matakatea, in Dunedin gaolj previous to his reprieve. Mr Bryce pointed out that the Government all along has been anxious to secure the permanent welfare of the native race, and intended setting apart large blocks of land for them; and that Wiremu Kingi and his followers should be settled quite free of expense, proving that the Government does not want to make war on natives. But all confusion must cease. Wiremu Kingi and twenty-four of his followers left Lyttelton in the Hinemoa to-day.

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