WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1989, 20 May 1875, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Wednesday.

The following telegram has been received from the Agent-General, dated London, May 7th :—The following ships will be despatched in April: Tammerslough and Collingwood, with 709 immigrants, for Wellington; and theTaranaki and Star of China, with 241, for Lyttelton;' the Fleming and the Aldegrove, with 667, for Otago, and with 2,000 tons of rails, 10 locomotives, Turnbull's, 6 cranes, 11 wheels, and 400 tons lighthouse material.

The Government have received a telegram from Mr Vogel, corroborating the information given by the Press Agency

as to the state of his health, and consequent detention in England. This day. Tho Times of this morning reviews the position of the Ministry in the light of Mr Vogel's illness and detention at home. | It says, now that the doubt is removed, and that we need not hope for his (Vogel's) return before September, there can be no possible object gained by postponing the opening of Session beyond the usual time, early in; July. ;It also says, "It would be idle to shut our eyes | to the fact that the Government, as now constituted, is, perhaps, as weak a one as could well meet the house in the present crisis." It says Sir Donald McLean will.have enough to attend to in native and Mr Kichardson in the Public Works .departments, and neither can be of much assistance to Ministers in other business. It also says that'neither Mr Reynolds nor Mr Atkinson is equal to the conduct.of Government business in the place of Mr Vogel. The article altogether is very hostile. It says virtually that rightly or wrongly the colony has no confidence in the present Executive without Mr Vogel.