WELLINGTON.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1670, 25 June 1875, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

(From our own Correspondent.) This day,

The Case of Cruelty. The horse-starving case, or the effects of it, are not yet ended: It is being made very uncomfortable for Mr. Warren. It is said that he has been called on by his superiors in. office to substantiate or retract the imputations cast upon the character of one of the witnesses for the prosecution, who is also a civil servant, and was called upon by the defendant's counsel to answer certain questions relating to his official duties. ProvincialismThe Times keeps pegging away at Provincialism as something effete, and says that people are tired of it. The Government Organ Defends its Patrons. The Tribune last night defended the action of the General Government regarding the financial dispu.es between the General Government and Auckland and Wellington. It takes its stand upon this, that the General Government can treat no province either well or ill as far as either goes. There is a law which defines their duties and relations respectively, and the law must be fulfilled. If Sir George Grey wants a mandamus let him have it by all means, and have his case tried. The public would see how hollow it is, qnd Sir George would soon find he was only at the beginning of the adventures of the old woman who was unable to force her pig over the bridge in time to get home to a reasonably early supper.

The Big Bully. The Post compares the attitude of the General Government towards Auckland and Wellington to that of the bullies sometimes seen at school, who say to little chaps, "What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own."