ALLEGED POLITICAL SCANDAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10521, 9 January 1912, Page 5

ALLEGED POLITICAL SCANDAL

ENQUIRY SOUGHT.

DUN ETON, Last Night, Concerning tlie Neliso-n- telegram re- | Bawling a sinister charge which, a® j t'he result of a land transaction, may | create ia, vacancy in (the Ministerial following, til© Star " says editoriallyJ "Now there has been 110 land transaction of any sort—certainly nothing of the kdmdi that prompted thle Hine; charges. But something has been allowed to transpire about a dramatic discovery of a transaction in wSiMi the names of to.ee anew.'who sat in tltoe last Parliament are unpleasantly ■handled. Then-© is. one of tnem who as stilil entitled to write 'M.P.' after this name. The transaction with "wihioh liiiS name has been associated is said to have arisen in connection with the passage of the Mining ''Act Amendment Ball; of last session: but ,whether or not there has been 'graft'—-i'or that, nakedly, is' the avr erme-nt against thfe trio—is a matter unquestionably for searching investigation at the proper time and in the constitutional way, for the_ honour of Parliament. seems to h'e involved. The allegation cannot be passed over in silence; it roust either be formulated and. pitoved or it must be shown to Eave been concocted for a muster purpose. But, in justice to the Parliamentarian whose name has been associated witii the allegation, it must be said in fairness that he has given a mos£ ejnpTi'aTSc denial to the fjtory impeaching his personal honour, and courts the amplest possible enquiry. The matter is certainly too serious to rest where it does at present, bait the next move in 'the face of that positive denial mutst com® from these. wfho are said to be in possession of the alleged incriminatoiy evidence. Development will certainly be awaited with lEe utmost- curiosity."