Deputations to the Premier. Auckland, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1496, 4 February 1882, Page 2

Deputations to the Premier. Auckland, Last Night.

The Premier has been engaged all clay with departmental work. To-morrow he will be interviewed by Mr Cadman, M.H.R., anil also by a deputation representing the Congregational Union. In the afternoon lie wilt accompany the hon. Mr Whitaker to his residence, at the Lake, returning on Monday morning. On Monday afternoon he is to leave for the North, and will probably be away for a week or so. The Premier was to have been interviewed to-day by all the available members of the Legislature, with the object of inducing him to follow the established usage of convoking Parlirment at the earliest possible period after the general election, but through some mistake or neglect on the part of his private secretary, the meeting did not take place. Sir G. Grey, Major Harris, and Messrs Tole, Sheehan and Cadman proceeded to the Minister's office at the appointed hour, but only to find that Mr Hall had left. The interview has now been postponed till to-morrow morning. The Premier will also be urged to defer releasing the Otago runs iiutil Parliament has been opened. The Government completed to-day the purchase of the hulk Clara Hargreaves, with the object of turning her into an intermediate quarantine station for the receiving and fumigating of mails. An inquest was held this afternoon, before Dr Philson, on the body of Alex. Orson, a native of Germany, late a seaman on board the Taiaroa, whose body was found floating yesterday morning in the harbor, near the North Shore Ferry tee.