AUCKLAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

Waikato Times, Volume 356, Issue VII, 25 August 1874, Page 2

AUCKLAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

Mr Vogel's late great act seems to have infuriated the Auckland pop alation. Queen street on. Saturday night last was the scene of considerable confusion. An immense thi'ong collected for the purpose of celebrating the carrying of the abolition of the Northern provinces resolutions by burning the Premier and some of his adherents in effigy. The ardour of the demonstrators however received a check at the hands of the police authorities which rendered the affair a very tame one, as it effectually deterred the most indignant, who respected themselves, from taking an important part in the ceremony ; they in fact crept into their shells, and the only individuals left to conduct the cart and its occupants to Barrack Hill, there to burn the representations of the delinquent politicians, were a host of overgrown boys, and some of maturer years who had nothing to lose by identifying themselves with the transaction. I hear that the figures were lifelike, especially that of the Premier. Very little could be seen of the vehicle, however, except when passing near an occasional lamp. Thei*e was but one man with sufficient courage to cany a torch a considerable distance from the object of interest, in contravention of the edict of Mr Broham that he would suppress any attempt at demonstration. Mr Vogel mounted upon a donkey drew his adherents to their doom so tardily that nothing was wanting but the funeral dirge. The proceedings were of such a character as to provoke mirth rather than to impress the bystanders with a feeling of solemnity that should be experienced on the occasion of an expression of public indignation. The promoters must have been anything but gratified with the result.