IMPUTATIONS OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4724, 19 July 1890, Page 3

IMPUTATIONS OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION.

(by telegraph.) (fkoji odr ows correspondent.) WELLINGTON, July 10. The work of the Boundary Commissioners was criticised to-night by Mr SeddoD, who charged them with baviog made some alterations in their boundaries after ooca fixing them, without beiDg moved to do so by petition, and also commented upon the position of Dr Hialop, who, he eald, onght to have resigned his Cimmlssionership immediately his son became a Minister. Parliament had directed itself to the dnty of fixing the boundaries with the object of putting the matter beyond political Influence; bnt It- could scarcely be considered so, when the father of one of the Ministers assisted in the work. The 001. in his reply, dealt gingerly with the subject, and went little further than to state that Dr Hislop was originally BDpolnted a Commissioner by the StoutVogel Government at a time when his son was a member of the Houae. Mr John M'Kenzio subsequently stated that, after the Waitakl constituency was first marked oat, the district was canvassed in the Interest of a certain Government, and, as the result, the boundaries were "gerrymandered " In the revision to salt a particular Interest. Mr Fish also stated that tbo district of Port Chalmers was so altered in revision by the inclusion of the borough of Ravensbourne as to make it a pocket borough for Mr Mills, and that it would cost an opponent L4OO or LSOO to fight the Union SteomBblppfng Company. The Hon Mr Balance added that the boundary Commission had done their work in the North Island very badly, not bo much from its political bias as from downright ignorance of population and the configuration of the country. At a later stage of the debate, Air Thomas Mackenzie eloquently defended Dr Hislop from the charges hurled at him by the Opposition, Bhoutlng that that gentleman, during his 35 years association with the colony, had conducted himself in a most estimable manner and had risen steadily by his own merits.