MR. HARRISON'S DISCLOSURE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1448, 7 October 1872, Page 2

MR. HARRISON'S DISCLOSURE.

To Messrs Grerille & Co. is duo the credit of giving the public both sides of the question between Mr Harrison and Mr Brogden's secietary. We can thus form something like u general estimate of the Gase, and we cannot venal the ceuclusion that whatever pro posals were made to Mr Harrison, that gentleman's conduct was far from creditable. If" we suppose, as asserted by Mr Holt, that nothing dishonorable was suggested, and believe Mr Brogden that Mr Holt had no authority to make proposals of such a character, Mr Harrison stands convicted of a breach of confidence. If, on the other hand, we admit that such proposals weoe made, it only makes the matter worse for that gentleman, who, instead of indig nantly rejecting them as soon as understood, took them into consideration, and maintained apparently friendly relations with his guest, notwithstanding the gross insult that (according to his own showing) had been offered him. His disclosure was also as impolitic as discreditable, for even if it be true he has no means of proving it, the counter assertion of Capt. Holt being of equal value with his own. It is just possible, however, that the after-dinner conversation of which two such different accounts have been given may not have heen of the most lucid possible description, and that neither party may have heen in a position favorable to remembering the oxact force of the expiessions that passed between them.