A WELLINGTON VIEW.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 209, 4 September 1899, Page 5

A WELLINGTON VIEW.

fßy Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, this day

Referring to the 'Frisco mail canard the Wellington morning journal comments editorially as follows: —"The laugh is against Auckland, but the incident is instructive as showing that the talk of a 'phalanx' in support of Northern interests, independent of party obligations, is no empty threat. A sad feature of the business is that it proves Aueklanders to have a grave mistrust of all New Zealand politicians save their own, and the incident helps to explain why the Northerners would rather have laws 'made in Australia' by a Federal Parliament than in Wellington by a New Zealand one." I am informed that the Hon. McCullough is still adhering to the statement he made re the "Frisco service, and endeavouring to justify his actions by maintaining the correctness of what he telegraphed. The , whole thing was a huge joke, and j there never was anything in it. His anxiety to get in front of the other pressmen led him to send the wire he did. He was the victim of a joke at the dinner table, and the people who stuffed him had no idea that he would endeavour to show that he was ; the only man looking after interests of Auckland. OUR DIGNITY OFFENDED. Mr Crowther says he is the only member ot the House who fails to perceive the point of the joke played by Messrs Carneross and O'Meara on j the too credulous McCullou.gh. All "the people's William" sees is that the Auckland City Council "has been i dragged through the mire," and the "dignity of the city offended." It was rumoured on Saturday that the : Hon. Mr McCullough was on the war- ! path with a blunderbuss, thirsting | for the gore of the two jokers, but | Mr Carncross was observed doing the ' block, his face bearing an expression i of sweet innocence, which is its chief characteristic. Mr O'Meara, however, it is reported, sought a change of air in the wilds of his beloved Pahiatua. Meanwhile, the HJon. Mac.'s chief business just now is inventing methods of explaining his conduct on natural grounds. He still maintains ' that only his prompt action saved Auckland.