EXTRACTORS OF THE COLONY IN THE BRITISH PRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1496, 26 November 1874, Page 3

EXTRACTORS OF THE COLONY IN THE BRITISH PRESS.

DUNEDIN,

I (From our own Correspondent.) £ This day. Fellows, formerly an Otago master, "Mr Humphrey, of the Daily Times staff, !*been writing a series of letters to the jMll Gazette, denouncing the colony, _Jparticularly its finances. For this they £* yesterday attacked by the Times and *Nw». The Times says that between and false inferences, Fellows tynade oat a pretty case indeed, and J*1?! us, to his own satisfaction at least, in y a%8s~certaiQ repudiation. In his ( *le wgument he fails entirely to conceive (jf-Zealand as it will be when the policy J** vogel is worked out, as it is already s?? lnS> since immigration assumed a more factory state. It concludes the article Wetting having to speak of Mr Fellow $* fashion, but a regard for truth necesS^a contradiction of such a palpable »n of that virtue. £« Guardian says the letters signed by wnrt^y gentleman are full of defamation ! presentations of the colony and the Which formerly gave him shelter, istles with figures and calculations onpous type. ' The object of the ?ears to be an attempt to damage aal credit of the colony, but if the naif as well known at home as here is attack will be ineffective. Mr' adds another name to the long list Mated men, whom the colony reaccept at their own exaggeratee self- . aad who, in their blind passion l* some sort by the exercise of their Dleaess in puny efforts to injure the Utago is well quit of such troubleWheivous citizens. ( lPera are quarrelling over Madame •. The Times editorially asserted ?«* went in crowds to the concert?, »]«e they understood music, but "was fashionable. Others assert j »wux is aa music-loving as any other J 16 colony. '

Arrived Otago, barque from Melbourne with port cargo of 10,256 mats of. sugar for Auckland. °

Sailed Helen brigaritiae for Auckland. f Pi-ffngti a wr? 1 Was mide last eve*i*g of Clifford Wright, against whom Fox obtained money under ialso pretences. The warrant was issued in February 1872 Wright was much astonished that so old a charge should at last Hnd him ont. lhe "limes" yesterday sever-dJy comments on the misstatements of xVir Charles Fellows and stigmatises part of them as deliberate untruths. A correspondent of the same paper seriously advocates the idea of the province of Otago becoming an indepentl CoJ°o y\ Mi its I )orts t0 be declared tree, and Custom-houses abolished. Touching the colonial debt, Ota2:o to accept the respond sibihty of one-fonrth of it. The ship Auckland's immigrants are nearly all engaged to-day. Siogle women from l l pei" year > housekeepers, £40 • ploughmen and shepherds, £55 ; agriculturist £52 ; nurse girls Gs (3d week.