COLONIAL ITEMS.
WELLINGTON.
December 22. The total amount realised by the Fielding sale is nearly ten thousand pounds. The Post publishes Mr. Travers’ reasons for declining the appointment of Attorney-General. He states that when he accepted the offer made him, he was not aware that the Attorney-General was “ under the direction ” of the Minister of Justice, and, in effect, treated as being a civil servant within the provisions of the “ Civil Service Act, 1866," and “ unless the position,” he says, “be admitted by Government to be such as is evidently contemplated by the ‘ Attorney-General’s Act, 1866,’ I should not feel myself justified in making the considerable sacrifice of income which my acceptance of the office would entail upon me.”
Private letters from the Palmer state that provisions are very scarce at Normanby, from whence fearful accounts are coming into Cookstown, as also from Stony, Oakly, and Sandy creeks. Diggers are being carried off by sickness by wholesale ; out of a party of 25, 24 died in six hours.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 234, 30 December 1874, Page 2
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168COLONIAL ITEMS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 234, 30 December 1874, Page 2
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