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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 21, 25 January 1873, Page 2

Gisborne School.—Mr. Lysnar requests us to state that with reference to a quotation recently made in our columns, and taken from the cash statement by the committee at its annual meeting, the discrepancy shown in the December quarter as against the previous quarters of the year, is explained in the fact that a balance of £9 3s. 6d. was owing on account of fees for that quarter. The committee must pardon the necessity for the explanation which would have been avoided if a business-like statement, and report explaning it had been made. This we have never had since the school started. The doings of Mr. George Buckland Worgan, Native Commissioner at Wanganui, have excited a good deal of local attention lately ; We offer no opinion on the subject at present, for more reasons than one, but chiefly because all those who take an interest in native administration will ere long be put in possession of the whole case, as Mr. Worgan has instituted an action for libel against Mr. Duigan, the proprietor of the Wanganui Chronicle {damages laid at £2OOO, with special ditto amounting to about as much more,) for some remarks reflecting on the plaintiff’s conduct. Mr. Worgan is a clever man, and means it—the fight will be carried on to the bitter or the better end, before the Supreme Court at Wanganui, in April next, and, nolens nolens, queer things will, no doubt, come to light. The Native Minister must necessarily go into the witness-box; official telegrams, we daresay, are privileged documents, else they could a tale unfold.— Evening Post.