SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 7444, 13 February 1888, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON, February 11

The ' Post' in a chatfing article thinks it is inconsistent with the "intelligence" of the people of New Zealand, as represented by and embodied in the New Zealand Protection Association of Chr»6tchurch, that it should condescend to put conundrums to such an obscure maligner as the Right Hon. John Bright; and after further comment the article proceeds : " Candidly wc think the ' intelligence' of the people of New Zealand is a great deal more insulted by such a body as the so-called New Zealand Protection Association assuming to represent it, and speaking in its name, than by the very plain and excellent advice given to the people of this Colony by the veteran champion of Freetrade in his letter to Mr Stack. The Association, wc are glad to think, no more represents the intelligence of the people of New Zealand than it represents the convictions of the intelligent majority of those people. On the question of Protection v. Freetrade the Association has simply rendered itself as ridiculous as the three tailors of Tooley street, who commenced a document in the style—' We, the people of England.' The action of the Christchurch Protectionists in the matter certainly affords a very strong justification of Mr Bright's assertion that ignorance is notaltogcther unconnected with the advocacy of the doctrine of Protection."

The death is noticed in Sydney of Mrs Creed, widow of one of the Calvert Wcs leyan missionaries to the Colony, and long resident at Waikouaiti, Otago, and in Wellington. A Wairarapa Maori is suing a local storekeeper for LSOO damages for false arrest and malicious prosecution on a charge of sheepstealing. Captain Coleman, A.C., has been appointed cavalry instructor for the Volunteer forces of the Colony.

An acre of land at Thorndon has just been sold for L 3.059 10s, equal to Ll2 per foot frontage to Hobson street. The owners of the Oreti have sent from Auckland money to pay the slip dues, for which she had "been detained on the slip. The other claims are still unsettled, and the steamer is under arrest.