CALLED TO THE COUNCIL

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9011, 17 October 1892, Page 5

CALLED TO THE COUNCIL

THE NEW APPOINTMENTS [»Y TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPOND *• 3 , Wellington, Satu*yThe new appointments to the Le^ at »ve Council were made at the Cabinet Juncil held this morning. The fact of the'Pontments having been made bee* 800 a known, and the liveliest interest vas f e *t on the subject. Ministers were - r y reticent on the subject, which inched the interest. A supplement to th«-*ew Zealand Gazette was, however, sued this afternoon containing the namiof the gentlemen newly appointed, *ey are as follows:— Wm, McCullough, Auckl'd. Wm. Jennings, Aucklanf Thos. Kelly. New Plymo-h. Horn E. Richardson, W*ngton. John Rigg, Wellington. W. Montgomery, Christmrch. John G. Jenkiuson, Chrichurcb, W. C. Walker, Christchch. Jas. Kerr, Greymouth.; W. M. Bolt, Dunodin. J John Macgregor, DunefHH. Feldwick. InvercargL The Hon. E. Richardson, « of the local appointees, was Minister Works in the Stout-Vogal Minisb* 5 the other, Mr. J. Rigg, is the United Federated Trades Council. Mr. William McCulloug, of Auckland, master printer, is an Iri*man by birth, and may almost claim to ban old identity. On the mother's side he ii descended from an old Irish family, the Memahons, and on his father's side from one of the Scottish colonists who in the tne of James I. settled in the North t Ireland. He left Limerick with Is parents for Auckland in 1859, arrivpe by the ship Tornado in thai year. His father purchased u farm ac Manga>ai, and Mr. MoCullough went to work » it, at the same time doing a (tie in jouaalism by becoming correspondent in t« district for the Auckland Weekly Nws. In 1864 he went to the West Coast;okl fields, working as a miner on many of the fieldsthe Greenstone, Red JacH Gully, and other districts of the Upper Grey. The glowing reports from the Thames goldfields induced Mr. McCullough to ome back to Auckland and visit the Thamef There he worked as a miner and mine mjiager for several years, subsequently joining the Times as raining reporter. After v.uous changes he became proprietor of the Thames Star, which he has run for twenty ;ears. Mr. McCullough while on the Thanes took an interest in political matters, aid at one time or other has held nearly all the public positions in the gift of his "fellov- citizens. In IS7S-9 he was Mayor, subsequently president of the Hospital Board, <hairman of the Harbour Board, and ttkairman of the Board of Governors of the High School. Subsequently Mr. McCullough bought a printing business h Auckland, and for the last few years has eivf n his attention to it. In politics he is a Liberal, and in favour of the extension of thai franchise to women. Mr. McCullough hoHs high rank in the Masonic fraternity as Provincial Grand Master, North Island of hew Zealand, under the Scottish Constitution, becoming successor to the late >ir Frederick Whitaker, whom he may now be said to succeed in the Legislative Council. We understand that one of the reasons why Mr. McCullough has been appointed by the Government to the i egislative Council is that they are desirous of having a representative of the Thames Goldfields there, one who understands goldfield subjects. For nearly twenty years the Thames people have been endeavouring to get a member in the Legislative Council, who might be regarded as interested in and representative of the goldfields. Mr. Wm. Jennings, the Labour member /or Auckland, is a native of this city, and a printer by trade, He served his time with Messrs. Mitchell and Seffern, in the sixties, at the old New Zealander office and elsewhere. H'j subsequently went to Dunedin, and was roerman printer on the Age and Guardian, and afterwards on the Oaraaru Mail. Some ten years ago he returned to Auckland, arid obtained a position as one of the foremen of the Evening Star- establishment. He has been connected with the Trades and Labour Council, the Knights of Labour, was for some time hon. secretary of the Auckland Liberal Association, and is also an officer of some of the friendly societies. As a Labour representative Mr. Jennings' views have always been moderate and sensible, and he wholly disap proved of the language and conduct of some of the agitators during the great maritime strike. If Labour is to be directly represented in the Upper Chamber he is as good a selection as could be made, as he enjoys, from his past record, the confidence and respect of his fellow workers. In matters of social reform he has also taken a good deal of interest, and actively co-operated with Miss Morrison, the secretary of the New Zealand Tailoresses' Union in the endeavour to improve the condition of the tailoresses and other women workers.