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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4270, 7 September 1882, Page 3

Bishop Neville, of Dunedin, has receiTed a letter from the Bishop of London, asking for information as to the advisability of forwarding the unemployed thence t6 this colony, a movement having been got up to. send them to Canada and elsewhere. Bishop Neville has asked the opinion of the Council on the,matter. A Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Star says there is a good deal of friction ,in..the Ministerial atmosphere again, arid'tho constant sore of the removal: of the Native' Lands Court from Auckland has become so painful that the question has been Very'seriously discussed bow Mr Bryce shall be got rid of ; and this question hao.--b.een so often discussed that, it has assumed .wider proportions,. add tbe_qnestibn of reconstruction is being seriousjy. considered, Messrs Bryce, Dick, and Rolleston bring, the men desired to be shunted. The question of the Premiership still is unsettled, although there is little doubt but what Major Atkinson is to have the offer. Major Atkinson is quite ready to pitch Mr Bryce over if he can get other colleagues. There seems little chance of Messrs. Whitaker and Bryce at all pulling together. The oldest marquis in the United Kindom is the ' marquis of Donegal, eighty-four; the oldest Bishop, the Bishop of Gilmore, eighty-one ; the oldest, earl, the Earl of Mountcashed, who is also the oldest peer in existence, eighty-nine; and the oldest judge, Baron Fitzgerald, nearly seventy-five. rAll are Irishmen.