The Oamaru Mail WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURIST. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1879.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 941, 23 April 1879, Page 2

The Oamaru Mail WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURIST. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1879.

' Ttttt ISow Zealand JPrics* Association lias j propagated news that has a tosieh of sensationalism;,. with a spice of __ Hibernian f dfolltsry, and » vein rawntnjj ! tsftfwwgh it It htt» wired thnnighortt the: iCoWjf Sir V»s»t has resigned : the Agentt-lisneialsftip ami joined a mcr* isantile font, Mid that Mr. ti. 31- Reed. trialt/ Emigration Agent, has h««M appointed temporarily te-thej'ositEwn. Hwr ; wnlikely that Sir Jutsoa Vng«l,#b : his world-wide repwfation to- his pmsitioh ad Asjfi&t-CJtsßKrad oi this Colony and the • facilities which that position has placed : within his grasp for displaying his knowColonial politicsand his natural wowt4 voluntarily abandon attcti a position. But it is less likely that fio : wotftd d<> 90 for the purpose df " going into' a commercial It r 111, as such an operation is not usually performed without I money. The whole thing is a delightful canard. The Auckland Evening .Star, the Wellington JW, the Chrtstehnreh ! Cft«fee> the Napier Telegraph, thcDnnedtn ! Star, the Itvvereargill Sews, and the ' Oitmactt Mail fiavs? combined t»» j stpeuiitl Eurupßan tetwgvawi. Theao gene- • tally suttttv bef»rc Renter a mesaaj{e» r an«l : the AwefelatvtJ !f»'tar, that their li special meMages werfe? being ptrstect, Cf.m- ---\ uw«iteti thtf messivje which this morning S set Cotonuta thinking. It wad aent to the • in Siydntty, »>f the special nteaaagea of tha evening nt»w»p<*per combination : ■ waa> we pubtished an a special t-abtetftam in the Sydney Evening j»*&wa. ' and wa» ponnced npoti a* a tit l>it by ttie Sydney Agent of the Presst Association, ] and furwarded to this Colony aa a : press Aaawciation speciaL Tiie public | b«* th« rent. The Auckland Star conducted thia creuial test cteverJy. Tfiere b aotneth/ing a© rich about every sentence and, indeed, almost every word of the ' nioufc cabtegrarn that it was not likely to ; fx? accepted aa gospel in the ahwuca of i eetvKfmation. Sir Jntn» VogeFs retirement r how nntifcfty his jvining a commercial ton with his gigantic tdeaA and limited—vary liroited—capital. This b the ttnkindest eut of ail. The " /ri*h fctntgration Agent," too, tM intended to make ** the charm err»w madder." It is> ao highly improbivbte that Sir Jwiitm Vogel weald so hurriedly resign, and that Mr. Reed, who had Wen sent to Great Britain because of the importance of having such a ma ,n to. do the work which fuw been entrnated to him, would be taken from the duties of his important mission to oceuyy tho Agent-fJeneralship at _ a moment's notice. The whole thing is tow rultmiiotw for JN'ew Zealand colonists to swallow, whilst it was snfticiently romantic to entrap the unfortonate Sydney agent of th« Association. B«t what will the New Zealander say when it. reads the fallowing explanation AfrKf,ASt>. April 23.

The cabletpram published in Association papßfs to-d*y annowndng Voget's retirement ' and the appointment ©f Mr. t_». M. Keed to i temporarily fttt the position. «m concocted i in the Star office 1 , anil seat to Sydney a fortnight ag© for publication amongst special • cablegrams as a trap for cablegram pirates. 1 Thw New Zetttander snapped! at the bait its greedily as thi? Press Association Agent in Sydney, and in a long article—an extract from which we give in another ! column— it dilates »pon the_ position of I atfairs, and points wot the action that the ; Government shotttd take wnder the disi tressing circumstances. The Auckland i : Star has a great deal to atone for. The inews* is tw«nd to spread. Sir Jntins ■ Voyel will feel lifco » wan whw has read I his" own death notice-, and attended his I own funeral Mr. f». M. Reed will ! scarcely know what to thtnfc of the canard; land, tndaenced by thfe" o'd adage that iwheiß there ist sxawije there must be fire, ; hj« will probably attribntc some political i significance t» th« aflair, and little drcaci that hi* oW partti«r. ilr. Bratt, is at the ! bottom of it- The commercial world of I London will W on the tip-toeof e*p««toiJQr, li uaswm tw sccnre as partner a man of such I indisputable financial ability and unknown Dvcnnmry resonrcesa) tlie Agent-Ocneral; 'tL Sew Zealander will saffex a loss of cireatitj'v. and iti* power of pcrsptcactty ! doubted; and tlir Asiooatton—by the ervwl hoax, it f*» b«en plwed in a most oncaviable predicament. « e shall tafc« some iotereat tn watching how it wtll intricate itself. A few actions tor damages against the proprietor of the Star, might, like tbg c*U»ivraia, l«e.