FALLACIOUS TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4220, 29 September 1874, Page 3

FALLACIOUS TELEGRAMS.

ro THE EDITOR. Sir, —Looking over a pile of newspapers that arrived here yesterday per Taranaki, one could not hut lament to see so many influential Southern journals journals whose general respectability is beyond suspicion—defiled With lying accounts, flashed from this place, of what transpired at the end of the Premier’s meeting with his constituents of City East, It is utterly untrue that Mr. Vogel was “stamped down,” or could not get a hearing. The Mr. Rees, who headed the rowdy howlers, is little regarded here. Mr. Rees is not an elector of City East, and he told an impudent falsehood when he said ho was. This is well known here. Mr. Vogel obtained an excellent hearing, albeit he told ns not a few unpalatable truths—• about transferring the seat of Government, for instance. We are not so had after all as lying telegrams would make us. God forbid ! The simple fact is; There was an immense assemblage at the Choral Hall to hear the Premier, a miserable faction tried hard to hinder him from getting a fair hearing, but tho faction was ignorainiously defeated by the vast majority of respectable folk who were present. We know well enough what is due to such a “Triton among the Minnows” as Mr. Vogel is —and lie did get an excellent hearing. He left early (10 o’clock), simply because he could not stay all night to hear Rees’s scurrility. When he left, every respectable person left with him. Rees, and the ultra-provinoial-cum-rowdy faction, stayed until the extinguishment of the gas abruptly put an end to their brutal uproar.—Yours, &c., One who saw it all, Auckland, September 25.