Daily Circulation, 1500. The Oamaru Mail TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1890.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4726, 22 July 1890, Page 2

Daily Circulation, 1500. The Oamaru Mail TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1890.

The Ministerial element in the HntohlsonBank of New Zealand investigation committee has, it is stated, resolved to endeavor to force Mr Hutchison to divulge the source of the information on which he based his charges against Ministers. Mr hutchison is not the man we take him to be if he do not resist this to the bitter end, Ministerialists, of coarse, feel annoyed that suoh unpleasant things should have been said of their political tools; but the Committee was not appointed to pry into the sources of Mr Hutchison's inspiration, with the objeot of either gratifying idle curiosity or of discovering somebody in connection with this matter on whom to wreak their vengeanoe. Suppose they were to succeed—what then? Would those who are charged with having [for years had important business relations with the Bask of New Zealand on behalf of the colony, while they were themselves so involved with the Bank thtt the legitimate presumption is that the colony's interests were prejudiced, be exculpated through the disoovery of the person who gave information of their oulpabllity! The Bank also would like very muoh to koow who gave the information to Mr Hutchison, and, if Ministers be under an obligation to the Bank, of course they are bound to use their influence to gratify snoh a wish. But it was understood that the objeot of Parliament in appointing the committee was to obliterate the blot that Mr Hutchison had caused on their hitherto spotless record. Are Ministerialists going to permit the investigation to proceed, so that an unmerited stigma may be removed; or are they going to obstruct the committee's operations by a cunning and useless device and leave the blot to fade from the Ministerial reaord through the operations of time, as the kindest course to themselves and their political tools.