MR. ALLAN McDOWALD.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 120, 1 May 1884, Page 2

MR. ALLAN McDOWALD.

The mystery which surrounds the actions of the above gentleman, as far as his resignation is concerned, still thickens, as the following contradictory telegrams tend to prove. If we might venture an opinion at all, we certainly should give preference to the first announcement on account of its being so characteristic of the individual himself:— Auckland, May 1. Mr. Allan McDonald, M.H.R. for the East Coast, was a passenger yesterday by the mail steamer for San Francisco, and it is stated that whilst on board the vessel he declared that he had withheld his resignation simply in order “ to spite his constituents,” and he “ would see them d d first before he would resign.” At any rate he has gone, and last night the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sir G. M. O’Rorke, had net received Mr. McDonald's resignation, Wellington, May 1, A private telegram received from Auckland this morning states that Mr, A. McDonald, M.H.R,, left his resignation as member with his solicitor, to be handed to the Speaker after his departure. At 3.50 we received the following telegram from Auckland :—“ McDonald left his resignation as member of the House in the hands of his solicitor, Alfred Whitaker.