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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 344, 15 February 1871, Page 2

In our lively contemporary, the Evening Neios, we read as a leader in yesterday's issue :• —" What we feared has come to pass. Mr. Vogel's mail contract with Mr. Neilson has been repudiated by Messrs. "Webb and HolKday, and Mr. Hall's boats are to run to Sydney, taking Piji instead of Auckland by the way." This is like the whoop of an Indian, springing on the carcase of slaughtered Auckland, waving the tomahawk around his head, and screeching with wild delight at her destruction. If true, the statement should be made with the deepest sorrow, by anyone not an enemy to the city. But the statement is an utter and unfounded falsehood. Our contemporary promised a leader to-day on the subject, and we shall see what special information he has obtained. But true or false, we cannot understand how malignancy towards Mr. Yogel for not agreeing to his terms, can prompt our contempory to exult in the heaviest blow that Auckland's commerce could receive, merely because it would afford a chance of spitting out spite against the Colonial Treasurer. Cannot our contemporary view Auckland's interests save through the gloomy clouds of his own bitter disappointment ?