TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
(FROM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, Thursday.
O'Rorke has sent the following telegram to the chairman of the Onehuuga meeting, in reference to a resolution passed by it on the abolition question :—" The resolution of Onehunga is most gratifying to Sir George Grey and those who act with him. Such resolutions greatly strengthen our hands. No stone will be left unturned to gain for the people the right to be heard before the Constitution is subverted."
Speakers at public meetings frequently refer to the prospect of a revolution in Auckland, in the" event of the Government measures passing. At last night's Newtou meeting this was especially the case. Dargaville at the Newmarket meeting last night said Grey was a Home Ruler, and that he wanted to get the police.handed over to the province as a precaution in the event of a riot.
(per press agency.) Auckland, Thursday.
An adult emigrant, the father of a family, died aboard the ship Ahunbagh in harbor last night, of heart disease, leaving his wife and family to begin colonial life alone. The football club have resolved on an interprovincial tour, to leave about September 7th. The team will probably number twenty. Dunedin, Thursday.
After an animated discussion last evening the City Council resolved that the consideration of the Abolition of Provinces Bill should be postponed until the various constituencies have an opportunity of expressing an opinion thereon.
The Guardian this morning gives Stout a regular dressing down, and charges him with wilful misrepresentation and gross disingenousness regarding the wording of the twentyseventh clause of the Local Government Bill. It states that he knew when he made the statement about the £SO franchise that the word "not" had crept in in error. "No language," says the Guardian, "is strong enough to characterise the conduct of a man in Stout's position in descending to such a miserable subterfuge." The Times says it is gross carelessness on the part of officials to allow such a mistake in the clause, and says Stout's argument, if the word "not" is inserted in error, must fall to the ground, and Tjarnach's version is correct. The Star remarks on the subject : " The manner in which Mr. Darnach has expressed himself forms a striking contrast in its frank free outspokenness to the very captious utterances of Stout. We regard Stout's oratory as being too much of the ad captandum valgus character, too sophistical, very often betraying, beneath a slight surface of reasoning, prejudices based upon mere personal antipathies. Men of this character are likely to accept a measure at the hands of one party leader that they would oppose if proposed by another; and were Stout returned for Caversham, and the Abolition Bill rejected this session, it would not be surprising to find him supporting a similar if not a much more sweeping measure in company with Reid and Macandrew, if introduced into the House by the motley party with whom they are now associated." The Guardian this morning has a sub leader on the untrue telegram accredited to the Press Agency, and says : "So far as the telegram in question is concerned, we can only stigmatise it as a malicious attempt to injure the commercial reputation of Dunedin, and at the same time we must express surprise that the agency which employs a thoroughly competent and reliable man in this city, shovdd so far forget what is due to him and to themselves as to place an outside telegram under its ordinary heading, especially when that telegram on the face of it bears the impress of falsehood."
[The Press Agency has authorised us to deny that any such telegram was sent by it or under its authority.—Ed. N.Z. Times.]
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4498, 20 August 1875, Page 2
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