PARLIAMENTARY.
Wellington, August 13. In the House of Representatives this afternoon, the Premier announced the receipt of telegrams from England, announcing the break down of the Californian mail service. Mr. Forbes, in London, had found himself quite unable to carry out the contract, and it was doubtful if H. H. Hall could do so. Arrangements were trying to be made with the home shipbuilders, so that the matter might looked.
tion. He was no party, and could be no party, to the scheme. He would be a base traitor if he had been a party to it. He could not alter his political opinion in a twinkling from now to Monday. He would never have joined the Ministry had he known his colleague had in his copious armoury a dagger with which to stab the political life of Auckland. The Premier had entered upon a voyage of which no man could see the end. (Opposition applause.) The Premier apologised for his colleague making such an exhibition. The statement made took him quite by surprise. Mr. O’Rorke has resigned. There is an adjournment of fifteen minutes, to enable it to be patched up.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 197, 19 August 1874, Page 2
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