The Evening Star. WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News. FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1875.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1682, 9 July 1875, Page 2

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

FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1875.

tot the cause that lacks assintaiipa, For the wrong that needs re^Ucssca, *#r tha future in Ihe distance A»* tha ««od that we c&n do.

The unkindly relations existing between Sir Julius Vogel and the Agent-General in London, are scarcely news ; but information recently received, appears to show that a species of chronic doggedness has been established. In our telegraphic columns it is referred to in a mincing way in the words of the minor Government organ at Wellington. Their relations, we are told are not so cordial as their joint position renders desirable. That means that they are about as nasty as they well could be. It ia further said there is a general complaint of the "lack of official reticence on the part of the Agent-General." That is the courtly way of saying that his tongue wags too loosely in his head; the implication being that he does not use due caution in keeping their quarrels "a secret from the outside world. But it is a most inexplicable thing that this state of affairs should have been allowed to continue so long. Every one knows fche genuine dissatisfaction throughout the colony, caused by the maladministration of the Agency Gen eiaj at home. The Government have repeatedly given expression to that feeling in vigorous despatches to which the Agent General. has replied in despatches equally vigorous and insufferably, insubordinate, and yet it has been borne with meekness. And even now, despite the fact that the Premier brought home another to do the Agent General's work, the insubordination continues; the substitute is .not suffered inside the office, and the Premier has to complain of the looae-tongued conduct of his subaltern. That there is a secret at tho bottom of all this, no one needs doubt. Time may let it out, and meantime despite the very presence of him who sways all New Zealand by a stroke of the pen, and

the twinges of whose great toe are as fateful as were the tracings on the Sybil's leaves, Dr. Featherston continues, with Turkish cap and hookah to 101 l away the time like an Oriental nabob. Why this is thus, it is not given to the outer world to know. Perhaps it may come out now, when the Doctor's tongue has begun irreverently and inconveniently to wag, or when, in parliamentary language, he is displaying " a lack of official reticence.