Black Wednesday was a financial and political crisis in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 9 January 1878 when the Victorian Government headed by Graham Berry dismissed around 300 public servants, including department heads, judges and senior officials, after the Legislative Council had failed to approve the government supply bill.
He held office as Commissioner of Railways and Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works under Charles Gavan Duffy from June 1871 to June 1872, and was Minister of Lands under Graham Berry from August to October 1875.
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In 1879 Hayter visited England as secretary to the Graham Berry and Charles Henry Pearson mission to London, and twice gave evidence to a committee of the British House of Commons which was considering how the system of collecting British statistics should be organised.