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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 2, 12 October 1872, Page 3

We have to acknowledge the courtesy of Archdeacon Williams, in presenting us with a copy of the proceedings of the Anglican Church Synod of the diocese of Waiapu, Session 1872. We shall take a further opportunity of laying its contents before our readers, but we have not space now ; and not being able to discover when or where the Synod met; still further, that this appears, according to the printer’s superscription, to be its one thousand eight hundred and seventy second Session, we must defer. f

The Canterbury Press, an out-and-out sup--1 porter of Mr. Stafford, says the new Treasurer (Mr. Gillies) must have been selected for the office because he knows nothing, or .next to nothing of financeIt is reported (says the Auckland corresspon- , dent of the Lyttelton Times), with many circum- • stances of probability, tlie Hon. H. R. Russell, member of the Legislative Council, is to be appointed agent for the whole of the East . Coast. Bearing in mind that this gentleman has been officially charged with abetting certain : frauds, and moreover, that he is exceedingly [unpopular everywhere along the East Coast and IHawke’s Bay, it may seem strange if such an [appointment is made, but there are “ wheels ![within wheels,” and who can say how far Mr. ■ Stafford is prepared to advance a political adherent ?

The portion of Karaitiana’s letter to the vEtening Post, on which the action for libel taken against that journal by Mr. Ormond and ' Mr. M‘Lean will, we hear, be based, is the ■ following sentence:— “ These Government men /(Messrs. Ormond and M‘Lean) said to the [storekeepers, ‘Be strong to give spirits and .[goods to the Maoris, so that they may get into [[debt and be compelled to sell their lands.” [The Attorney-General and Mr. Allan, we learn, .[are retained by the prosecutors.