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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1663, 17 June 1875, Page 2

The "political rumours" current in Wellington, as forwarded from our correspondent and published in another column are suggestive. With reference te the return oi the Premier to New Zealand, it appears thai in that centre of political light and life, opinion inclines largely to c belief tha< the colony will see him no more. We think such is also the general belief in Auckland. We cannot exactly comprehend the bearing which the deposit of the remnant of the four million loan may have on the honorable gentleman's stay in England. Oui correspondent is vague and mysterious in his hintings, and seeks to allay our curiosity by expressing his solicitude lesfc we should be subjected to the pains of legal proceedings—the which may the gods forfend. We think, however, he might venture; for as i 1 is said eels can become accustomed to skinning, with us, from lengthened experience, the agonies of death are past. We see that a qualified denial is veEimed ss to Ilicatement made, that the money has been deposited at 2i per cent.—very qualified indeed, for it is merely stated that it "requires confirmation." Doubtless, everything is al the better from having confirmation, but there is no doubt the statement is true, an^ these denials and quasi-denials of first infoimation, which have become characteristic of ministerial inspirations, are now rather monotonous and wearisome. As to what i& hidden under the vague intimations in the latter portion of the telegram, we confess that we require the cue withheld by our correspondent, in fear of our being subjected to the terrors of the criminal or the civil law.