THE "PRESS" ON MR. WHITAKER.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXI, Issue 2608, 27 November 1865, Page 4

THE "PRESS" ON MR. WHITAKER.

The Canterbury Press has a leading article on Mr. Whitakor's late hustings speech, whioh in several passages so far transgresses the utmost bounds of newspaper ciiticisin that we cannot reprint it entire. We annex the opeuing paragraph, however : — " It is not necessary that we should leport the whole of the outrageous speech delivered by Mr. "Whitaker the olher day ou the Auckland hustings, because a good deal of it would not interest our readers. But a few extracts are worth our attention, because the sentiments, we may almost lay the vnvingg, of this intemperate man may probably open the eyes of a good many to the true cause of the disasters which were brought on the colony by the Government over "which Mr. Whitaker ptesided in 1863. Most men, however violeut their political opinion*, ncqnire by the cares of office a sense of the higher responsibility which attaches to the utterances of men iv. power. Mr, Whitaker is restrained by no such sense of duty. In the violence of his fury against Mr. Weld's Government for having removed the seat of Government, lie attacks eveiy thing, even the credit of the colony itself, which every public inun of character usually unites to protect. 'Throughout the whole of Mr. WhitakerV speech the interests of the oolony — indeed the colony at all — are hardly alluded to ; to him tho colony is, as it has been for the past twentyfive years, Auckland."