Political Notes and Comments
(By Telegraph.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Wellington, July 17. The unexpected developments in the banking trouble has been the talk of the city today and when the House met to night the galleries were filled to overflowing. The interest was almost as keen as in the case of the banking crisis of 1894. Mr Watson was subjected to a severe fire of cross-examination, but h« came through the ordeal remarkably well, while Mr The i. Cooper, who addressed th« House on his behalf, made a speech that was recognised as admirable in taste, concise, and judicial in tone. This Auckland lawyer, while making his points with telling effect, lost no opportunity of driving it home that Mr Watson was not a contumacious witness, and had only declined to answer the questions in the interests of the colony and of the bank’s shareholders. Mr Cooper evidently made a good impression on the House, though it is doubtful whether his address will influence a single vote.
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Southland Times, Issue 13501, 18 July 1896, Page 2
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