TASMANIA.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 25, 3 February 1863, Page 2

TASMANIA.

By the arrival of the Eucalyptus, wg j|j> receipt of Hobart Town papers to the 201® The following are the principal items M. telligence : — Jy We aye at last to have a change of Grmiin< On Saturday afternoon Mr Chapman, MrH and Mr Dobson tendered their resignatilj their respective offices to his Excellency. £fi resignations were accepted. And Mr Of. was sent for. Mr White has undertake «: task of forming a government. — Advert wwjjfti The following is the list of the new raiii^ 1 Colonial Secretary and Premier — The E? Jaames White, Esq. ?7r Member of the Executive Council vJ* , office— The Hon. James Milne Wilson, E™? 1 Colonial Treasurer — Charles MerrediilK 3 Attorney General — Robert Byron MilleiS^ It has been, we think, wisely resolved JSJ make any appointnment in reference to tea? licitor-Generalship, until the result S^i inquiry jinto the best mode of effecting d|^ mental consolidation, shall permit tha a? 5! tive to decide how far public economy cigF safely achieved by an amalgamation of W* legal appointments — Mercurry. '££, On Saturday morning, pursuant to a rescgr passed at a public meeting of Mr Adams' S3* stituents, held at the Mechanic).' Institi §£ Friday night, a deputation waited upot W gentleman at his chambers, in Stotie Buillljr to present a resolution calling upon hirallj sign his seat as one of the membeMv Hobart Town.— lbid. W Maintaixikq ax Invalid Husbaxi3?P the Police Court yesterday (Monday), i|? mons was applied for and granted againri? 1 Holdship, whose husband was an inmateM 1 Brickfields Invalid Depot, calling uponfflp show cause why she should not pay for thg*r port of her said husband. Tho applicatSS made under the 3rd clause of of the 26th|si toria No 3, and the Magistrate's jurisdict?B ? given under the 4th clause of the same acwP Superintendent made a demand on Mrs KjP ship for the amount due, and a reply mB-* ceived to the effect that she denied ail resgii bility for the support of Mr Holdship, unHp certain deed signed by him, which relievfiljlci from any claim as his'wife, and further, ll W< solution of the marriage ou the grouni W Holdship never carried out the marriage i Mbo now before the Matrimonial Causes Court M* about to be investigated, The hearing iUB< -case will coaie on in the course of the psl week, and as it will be the first of the|fi,i under the new act, a great deal of impoMii will attach to it. — Advertiser. wis