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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 891, 13 December 1870, Page 2

At lavercargill, Dr Carr, the mesmerist, has been fined a farthing for au assault on a resident of Win ton, named King. Each party was adjudged to pay his own costs. In Mr Vogel's late address to the Auckland electors he was very severe on Messrs Wood and Gillies, for condemning his financial scheme —which had cost him so much labor and study—ris soon as they heard it. Mr Gillies, in his recent speech to the electors of Auckland City West, showed that the action of himself and his colleague was not quite unprecedented, and turned the tables on Mr Vogel in the following manner: —" When I bear it said that on this occasion Mr Wood took a most unusual course, a most unprecedented course, a course which was to be considered improper—hearing this, I must say that I felt considerable surprise. I find that no further back than in 1868, two years ago, Mr Hall made his financial statement, and that, when that statement was concluded statement which occupied some fourteen pages of Hausard — when that statement was concluded, an honorable member got up and spoke in the following words. (A voice : ' Name.') I will first read what he said :—'l look upon it that there is a radical injustice in the policy enunciated by the honorable member which must bring down on this country the reproach of the people—an arrangement which those coming after us will designate as a purely gambling and hap-bazard transaction, based on no principle and no fairness.' The honorable member who thus attached Mr Hall's statement in 1868, immediately after it was delivered, was no other than the present Colonial Treasurer, (Prolonged cheering.] "