Special Telegrams.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3799, 2 March 1881, Page 2

Special Telegrams.

(FJiOH OUli OWN COKIiBSPOiNDENT.)

Wellington, 'phis day

ONW OF TITS YA-'ANT CHAIRS

(Japt.-iiii Rus-cii of JNapier has been aaiicii lo i in ilic Ministry. He !ihs not I yet jjivi;a a reply, lie is hesitating. The old Fox will be consulted if Captain Hussell refuses. The Premier, I tear, will have a great difficulty in inducing any member having any following to become one of his colleagues. •THIS NATIVE OFFICE. 1 am informed that if the appropriations which were removed from the Native Estimates, Native Land Court Judges, and Courts, and Native school leieheis. &c, we're again tacked ca to the Native vote the expenditure for _ tliu year ending this saouih would be in excess of of the last financial year. The travelling and incidental expenses connected with the Native Lands Court is something enormous.' ONE OF THE NUMEROUS COM- . ■ ' MISSIONED. .

Your renders might have noticed that a special commissioner was appoiuted some time ago to enquire into certain native

land dealings at Taurangu. Mr Vercoe it is understood was the chief " sufferer." Having enquired who this Mr Vercoe is, I learn that he is simply a brother-in-law of Mr Thomas Eussell. The eommis sioners appointed, namely, Messrs Brookfield and Ivenap, for investigating certain native land dealiugs in -Wpikato are also very much talker] about, but as newspaper telegraphic correspondents are not to impute motives; to a pure Government for their administrative acts, i shall refrain. PARLIAMENT TO BE CALLED TOGiCTiiJiR EARLIER THAN WAS EXPECTED.

The Governor aud Ministers I hear have had another jaw. The Premier is anxidus to see the surplus available after the e?id oF the month, so that auother tour of visits and sops may follow. .The Governor thinks on the other hand that the united wisdom of Parliament should be consulted before large expenditures are either contemplated or authorised.