The Evening Star. WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News. TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1875.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1679, 6 July 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star. WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News.

TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1875.

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Dr. Pollen has won one tosa from Siir George^Grey, and like a hen over a new laid egg, he cackles. As usual he transmits the intelligence to Auckland, and through the columns of the Ministerial organ we are placed in possession of the continuance of thVtelegrammiad. It was over the advance ■■'tb Hie Thames Pumping Association, and in the face of the immediate risk of the stoppage of the works of the Company the Provincial Authorities have -yielded and coasented to sign a bond fixing the liability of the province definitely. The Audit Commissioners are of course thrust forward, and a position never contemplated either by Mr. Vogel when coquetting with the Thames people he offered the advance, nor by the late Superintendent when he concurred in the proposed munificence of the General Government, haa, been established under the severest pressure and tyranny. The telegram miad opens with a

requisition from the Provincial Treasarer Mr Wood for £7,500 due, and wanting to pay accounts of the Association for May; Dr Pollen replies demanding a certain bond. After several passes between the Colonial Secretary and the Superintendent in which the latter states he signs under protest, Daniel brings forth the Commissioners of Audit, who thus pronounce for him : " The Commissioners of Audit regret that they cannot act on this telegram, nor until an agreement which is valid under the Act is submitted to.them. The telegram itself throws some doubt on the fact of the agreement being valid or binding when signed." Whereupon his Honor signs "with no note on it of protest," but " under absolute compulsion to save a private association," adding that "the General Governmment in not adhering to the original agreement," is "not justified in law or public usage, " and that he will strive to obtain a reconsideration of the subject." When we know the ruinous effects of even the temporary stoppage of the Association's pumping operations, we can appreciate the force of "argument," to which on this occasion the Superintendent has succumbed, and over the efficacy of which Daniel seemingly cannot exult in silence but must make the Auckland organ play pteans of triumph. But the richest thing in the whole affair is Dan's trying a little of his soap on Mr. Reader Wood. "I am glad," he says, " to communicate with you in this matter as a man of business." The insinuation of the inferiority of Sir George Grey in Daniel's estimation is so neatly and so simply put as to command our admiration. Sir George has shown such a want of common business capacity in not seeing the force of Daniel's objections in the matter of the impounded capitation money and the arrested confiscated lands funds that Dr. Pollen turns from him in weariness, not to say a measure of contempt, and his soul is refreshed in coming into contact with a "man of business," one who will really understand him and appreciate the disinterested and purely business motives of the Colonial Secretary. We are sure Mr. Reader Wood fully appreciates the saponaceous salve applied, and he must feel soothed to an extraordinary degree by a compliment of such a kind coming from one known to be so sincere, ingenuous, aud straightforward in all his political utteiances, as the Honorable Dr. Pollen.