THE CANARD AGAIN.

Press, Volume III, Issue 327, 17 November 1863, Page 2

THE CANARD AGAIN.

We have it on undoubted authority that Mr. Bealcy informed Mr. Moorhouse yesterday afternoon that he did not intend to resign the Superintendency, on which Mr. Moorhouse at once tendered his resignation of his seat in the Executive. We are sorry for having misled our readers into believing that Mr. Bealey was about ("O resign : they will remember that at first we were very cautious in believing the report, and went so far as to contradict the Lgttelton Times and the Canterbury Standard, when those journals gave ..•urrency to the rumour tliat his Honor's resignation was imminent: we believe, however, that both those journals had good reason for writing what they did; and we know that we spoke correctly in asserting that Mr. Bealey had spoken to Air. Ollivier as Chairman of his Election Committee, and informed him of his inteution to resign. The reason for the change that has come over the spirit of his Honor's dreams is not apparent, and ••here are sufficiently unpleasant rumours current to demand full and public explanation. Wo have i)cen kept for more than three weeks in a state of • ntense mystification. Mr. Moorhousu's name has keen bandied to and fro for the last fortnight, but ho has vouchsafed us not a word. We were led by the Lyllelton Times and the Standard to couple Mr. Moorhouse's acceptation of a seat in ■,he Executive with the resignation of Mr. Bealey ; we are now led to couple his resignation of his scat with the non-resignation of his Efonor. What does all this mean? How much longer are we to be kept in suspense? We know that Mr. Bealey said, not once, nor twice, but repeatedly, that he meant to resign office: we know that he waited on Mr. Ollivier and told him so. Did he know that that gentle, man was about to call a private meeting of Mr. Moorhousc's friends or did he not ? In the name of all that is straightforward, we beg that his Honor or Mr. Moorhouse will give us an expose of this whole bnsiness from beginning to end. These arc the only two persons whose explanations will satisfy the public. It is true iliat that meeting was private, but the fact of its having been called is so notorious that it is no breach of confidence to alluJc to it. If we are to have a political scene, let it bo full, open, and unreserved : we have been in the dark long enough, let us have a little daylight let in from some quarter or another; the sooner we begin the sooner we shall end, and the sooner Mr. Bealey will either regain or utterly lose the confidence of the public.