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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 206, 22 August 1876, Page 2

Tee Wellington correspondent of the Auckland iStar says :— •' Mr Sharp, of Nelson, in a very prosy speech, made it clear that he. voted, against Sir G. Grey's resolutions because he thought it was more convenient to be governed from Wellington . than from Christchurch," &c. Not having had an opportunity of reading Mr Sharp!s speech in full, we, are hot in a position, to say whether it was " prosy" or not, but we are not disposed to allow that it was so simply because the Star's correspondent makes the assertion. For it is a, peculiarity of this correspondent that to every speaker or speech not in favor of the resolutions he applies some derogatory epithet, the exact reverse being the case with regard to those who took the opposite sidß. For. instance, in the issue from' which we have quoted we are told that Mr Sharp (against, the resolutions) was prosy; Mr Eowe (also against) is alluded to as " Billy Eowe" and described as "greatly excited and evidently feeling that he was doing something that might prove awkward afterwards"; Sir R.Douglas (against) " made an incoherent speech of about half-an-hour" ; Mr Cox (against) " followed in a. roundabout speech, in which he tried to be funny." Ifc is quite refreshing to find the same...correspondent eulogistic of any speech, and much to be regretted . that during the same afternoon he had only one opportunity of being so, Mr Hamlin having been the only man who earned praise at his hands by speaking in favor of the resolutions. Of Mr Hamlin we are told that, "in a short, manly, and straightforward speech of about ten minutes length, he gave his reasons," &c. "Heis a favorite with the House, and was warmly applauded." After reading the above one cannot but be a little sceptical regarding the genuineness or impartiality of this correspondent's approbation or censure.