THE WATERHOUSE-HALL TELEGRAMS.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4287, 26 April 1879, Page 3

THE WATERHOUSE-HALL TELEGRAMS.

The following correspondence has been sent to us for publication:— TO TEE KDIZOB OB THS RB-SS. Sir, —I have hitherto abstained from taking any public notice of tha excitement that has been got up about a telegram sent to mc by the Hon. Mr Water/house, and my telegram in reply. In the first instance I looked upon the importance given to it as a mere joke, and since the matter has assumed a more serious aspect I have felt obliged to keep silence until I could communicate with Mr Waterhouse and obtain his sanction to the publication of his message to mc. Having obtained this, I now request you to publish the telegrams, from which-it will be seen that the whole story of Mr Waterhouse having suggested to mc the materials out of which a Ministry could be formed to supplant. Sir G. Grey's Government, and of my having proposed an altered list of names for the same Eurpoie, is a complete fabrication from egmning to end. The signature to Mr Waterhouse's telegram was Whithouse, which I perhaps hastily mistook for Whitmore. In print the two words bear but little resemblance, but in the hurried writing of a telegraph clerk, Whithouse may be made to look at first sight like Whitmore, and in this instance it was so. Hence my mistake in sending to Colonel Whitmore a reply to the telegram sent to rae, as it afterwards turned out, by Mr Waterhouse. Your obedient servant, Joss Haxi.

[COPT OF TELEGBAHS.] Hon. J. Hall, Chrifltchurch. Ministerial crisis seems impending. Grey persistently refuses to sanction Luckie's appointment. Other Ministers unanimously insist upon it their hor-or being involved. Little probability of compromise. Opinion prevails that Grey wishes to compel his colleagues resign aa to farm Ministry entirely responsible to himself. G. M. Whithous-. Hon. Col. Whitmore, Wellington. Thanks for telegram just received. Concur as toGray'a object. Confident such Ministry would not be supported either by House or country. Stevens concurs. J. Ha__.