THE CHAIRMAN OF WELLINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE PREMIER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 65, 18 March 1895, Page 3

THE CHAIRMAN OF WELLINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE PREMIER.

(BY telegraph..—own correspond IN?.)

..." Wellington, this day. The statemenb -made by Mr McLellan, Chairman ofthe Wellington Chamber 6f;!' 7 Commerce, to your morning contemporary, relative to the Premier's comments upon his speech'at/bhe last annual meeting-of the Wellington Chamber, has been telegraphed- 7hero, and I have seen the Premier oq' the subjecb. Mr Seddon points,oub thab MrMcLellanin his reply evades the chargo the Premier made,- which was, that he was '. biassed againsb bhe GovernmenbX Iri prqpf of bhis bhe Premier stated in his Wanganui speech that be had been informed thai. Mr McLellan arid bhe ex-Presidenb of the - Chamber of Commerce had solicited subscriptions toward a fund for paying tbo expenses, of a good speaker to - stupip th. country in opposibion to bhe presenb C*1 Governmenb, or bo use the words y'oi his in- ', formant,* "a"man to tear them up into rags.'? The Premier, says bhab when Mr -McLellan replies explicibly bhab he haß/ nobasked any person to subscribe, and has nob, subscribed himself or promised 60 bo do, bhen bhe Premier will,: as he /Bbated ab Wanganui he would do if his information were proved, to be incorrecb, withdraw the Bbatemenbandapologi.se. X