Auckland Telegrams.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3960, 7 September 1881, Page 2

Auckland Telegrams.

(fBOM OUfi OWN COBREBPONDENT.) • Auckland, This day. The Governor's visit to the Fijis has been indefinitely postponed in cpnsequence of the deadlock at Port Nic. It may be October before Sir Arthur Gordon wiil be able to leave Wellington. Some of Graut and Foster's new settlers are chary cf occupying their lands. Mr J. C. Firth took one of the principal arrivals away to Matamata yesterday, with a view, it is supposed, of acquisition and settlement. Nothing is now heard of the settlers and farmers who were to settle on Mr Fitzgibbon Louch's land at Whangarei. No one can tell what will be the upshot of the session. The latest on dit from Wellington is that the Premier intends resigning. I should not be at all sur. prised if this "God send" followed, as independent of the Honorable John Hall being sick of the position of affairs, the colony is heartily tired 'of the Govern* ment of the people by himself and the ; other alleged Liberal Ministers. Pos- ; sibly Sir Arthur Gordon will bring about | the finishing touch on the. present state of public business by declining to accept the first of the Ministers recommendations. I hope so. ' • Further substantial aid is being collected to" assist' the | s tone wallers in; the matter of the Representative measure—' save the mark when I say measure. The Herald, for once, has spoken out manfully, but not a word from Henry's sheet. .Perhaps Mr Brett is to be,called,to the Upper House if Johnny Hall gets over the difficulties of the situation. Mr Hurst, it is stated, will be called.to the Legislative Council. However; even this garden of Paradise may not be reached by this distinguished nobleman and law-maker. ' ' ' It is understood that Mr Rolleston will pay all Mr James Mackay's election expenses- if he stands- for ,Ooromandel. If the Minister of Justice does not do so, it will be ingratitude, as Mr Mackay has only to ask the Patetere Company to fork out, and they would likely do it, if it could be arranged that' they could shut him up or choke him off from opposing .them. - • . ,-..-, The principal owners of, Patetere,-are anxious to get Mr John Abbott to proceed to England to sell their smallholding of a quarter of a million acres.; Our City Finance Minister may go, provided the quid pro quo is equal to the >orry and anxiety consequent upon a' mighty.,, mission. \ I 'mow for. a fact, however, that the proposition],has been made. Mr Brett was to have been asked, but as he is, not yet ,"elevated," of course his services cannot be secured—at least for a little term yet, and especially as the negotiations are of such a confidential and responsible nature. ■ ■ ' The telegraph operators are entitled to a bonus for their long hours re the stone* walling. ■ • • - Unkind people say Mr - Watt?'' late accountant here of the Bank of New Zealand, -)was promoted -> to , the acting managership of the Bank's .affairs at | Christchurch for political services. ! Really t!>h-is too bad, knowing as: Ido the'entire absence of anything, of the sort connected with the directors of the 'Bank in question. Party or no- party I man, Mr Watt was a general favorite with the Auckland people as a whole.'"