Our Auckland Latter.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3958, 5 September 1881, Page 2

Our Auckland Latter.

(FROM OTJB -OWN' COEREBPONDBNT.) Auckland, Friday. THE GOVERNMENT INSURANCE. The, recent, report of .the X^omiuugipnex,* of, Life Anriuitiefe 'on 'GoVWnmentiWw^ ance, together with the London Actuaries' analysis of the whole transaction up to date, appear to "have been Tery favorably -received by the Auckland policy holders * and;th[e .public generally,* and.youKofd \* friend, Mr Luckie^ has agreeably .disappointed many of ' those 'persons' who * expected and predicted! that h> would be"" '■- more at ease in a newspaper office;editing,, a paper and yielding. the! imgtijty "iffi','*than exercising the' duties/ of'a' depart-' mental head in one of, if not.' the chiefc office in the Colonial Government jhe! present Commissioner, has one excellent;!: quality, his 1 thorough impartiality' ih {!t'h«' performance of onerous' duties','- and any* one knowing newspaper men. who hare „ held positions of trust, can "always 'care* " fully assert that they, above all others, are capital administrators, owing, to [the .-, entire absence' of personal feeling.whica^ invariably guides them in all 'official' , matters which hare to he dealt with. Jtf r . Luckie has the .credj^ of piymotinjr deserving officials in the departm»nt,^«9K , I think' he has, ,as it, w,ere, done things by {anticipation in makibg the' actingagent,* of the local office, Mr Irvine, jts Pjerma- ' nent bead.' The' advance"'in position which Mr Irvine has got showed iilcyUt* .-^ irig forethought, .and a, step whi«h;will |' further tend ,tq popularise the Auckland. ;;'• office <of the < insurance „branch of-the/,,, public», ( Bprvice. j The..Commissioner,, ,1.,.. hear; has also decided upon abolishing all i chief, agents. This is a step in the right I : direction, as it will tend not! only to pra- '■ mote greater efficiency,' reduce salarieii'f > travelling allowances and expensesj-%ut '*> lodal 'officers "in the positidn^of 'ia 'taking afar greater amount'of interest' id- ">! their work, and warrant" them in sayingi ' "lam now virtually ip a position pf.greaft „ trust, and if 1 do not do'everythifag^for^ ' the good of the service, I cannbt blaoae ■ >' my chief if I get'the Iran andaaoiher "'' '«■ replaces me." .""."*, 3JHE WELLINGTON CORRESPOND^NT'OF TH5(^ HE BALD AND HIS EXCELLENCY. "Rous" has again been cutting up rough againstl Sir- "■Arthur^ Gordon; -iX'TT" thought'he would see'the'error of" his ways in.,this respect,, but the H.erajid r editor seems' to. be again allowing' him " /-, rope in this'respect. Never mind, my ..!.,; Wellington special, j You can .pitch into the Governor, but,you may, rest,,aßsared .}<• that your writing will recoil od your.own ; ■ devoted, head, as a-note is carefully taken ■'-> of all yourattackß on the representative.-.-.; of Her Majesty, and clippings compiled f and transmitted to' head quarters.'" Whilst dn this subject of ffis Bsfoelleboj^: <( I will give' you one mstarice to 'show the' '" feeling which actuates one of-the'editors' " ' of the dailies here. Some time back a

geotlemen who has, been appointed a teacher ia a northern native school* dis* trict, and who is olosely<, related to a leading politician in Fiji, was offered a permanent engagement on the staff of the paper, provided he commenoed. his _... duties by writing a series of strong articles containing .spicy.attack^ on $ir f Arthur Gordon's proceedings during his"'' High Oommissionership: in <the' lWesfcer& '• ? ' Pacific, when the gentleman'absolutely declined an • engagement" upon these wretched terms. That the attaclcß,on His „ Excellency are- inspired from Wellington '-' ' '• very few who know this rfitf of: the ropes doubt, and my only. regret Jg, (jut for. reasons wßich cannot be here''itatra;'the '**- \ writer wa^s. prevented from 'sboneip.taking' ..." official notes of the'" ratings'" and sending "',', t '.. them' on with his own remarks to"the " Governor's private .secretary„ with- a . request that they be laid before our viceregal representative I.' ' ■'■'.'"": -' •■> ..' «. '. THE SITUATIQH. -AT. WELLINjGIpK.. •,. y«• --. -„ , The latest intelligence Tespectuajj Bift VJ * motive of Messrs'.Hall and'po. re, the , Kepresentation Billis ,toy^etjU''througTi' 1 'fSI' a committee, resign, and' recommend, a dis* r : solution.,,, The ,Minißtry.."k|O» r fc.clire«i>ir'r no-confidence 'motion will b© brought ' down on thefirst opportfinity, and BQonM r , t , ,- than have, to,see the hostile,mqtion^iant' « to the Governor they wjll make up their.. „, minds to the inevitable, and foreatal the 1.7 condemnation of the House; As is,usual,-! •■-' in these matters, the Herald ii endeavor* ; ing tq draw- a red hfrringvtcroisJithe -Wfi •cent, aud instead of abusing the Premier, ><'>•--■ the,editor- should go bald-headed for th» 'J 3-u so-called Auckland representatives;l who -''■ are aiding Otago'arid 'CiiiterKurr.'W ■" - us of our 1 legitimate ■ share'of political --' ' nghti, in'the Goancils of the colony; ' t Tlia ':i'' earnest'hope here is that the itiitiewalleri " 7 ' will be equal to the' occasion) and 'coat"' -I out ot tv« fight with flying colors.