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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 788, 4 February 1871, Page 3

A correspondent of the Otago Daily Times asks — " I would like to know who is going •tot ay the piper ?' We learn that the City of Melbourne steamer left Auckland with the following distinguished passengers :— Mr Yogel and his reporter, Mr E. Pox. Now it does senn monstrous the country should be put to the expense of attaching »n aide-de-camp to Mr Vogel's tail, so that he can be lauded from his way of thinking. Surely the Press is large enough in America and England, and also fair enough to give an impartial statement of this great New Zealand ambassador. I pause and ask, Will the people of New Zealand stand this reckless extravagance trom the officers of the Colonial Treasury ? I say it is time we rise to a man, and declare such a state of— l would call it — thorough demoralisation in our Colonial Government, should be put a stop to. Allow this state of affairs to go on a few years longer, and we are bound to have a national 'insolvency." .^ ..... w( . w