LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1487, 16 November 1874, Page 3

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

WELLINGTON,

(From our own Correspondent.) This day. The real facts of the snarl between the Post and Mr Halcombe are, it is said, (hat his Excellency is, though not generally known, one of the principal men in the Fielding Association ; and aa he was anxious to make a personal inspection of what he was so much interested in before leaving the colony, he wenfc up there, and Mr Halcombi? was naturally desirous to make things pleasant to the Governor, who was a director. Besides, he would go on ahead of him to see after his accommodation personally, and to do so, he had to trust the reception and temporary care of immigrants upon landing to his deputy, who had already enough to look after. Food did not happen to be handy just at that moment, for such a largo mob of people as were landing early in the morning, but in a few hours they were ail provided — voila lout.

Those who projected an independent newspaper compaiiy, have finally given it up as a bad job. The few who paid application money are to have it refunded, minus a share of the preliminary expenses. The Post again stirs the Brandon case, stigmatising the Gazelle notice of the case as grossly unfair.

Many friends of Mr Brandon regret the extreme publicity which the case has received one way and another; mainly through the instrumentality of injudicious friends.