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Observer, Volume 2, Issue 37, 28 May 1881, Page 396

There arc more rows and investigations on the tapis in connection "with that luckless institution, the Auckland College and Grammar school. Mr. Macrae naturally bears no good will to those masters who gave evidence against him at the late enquiry and ever since his eagle eye has been carefully watching for any vent in their armour. From what we can hear he now thinks he has found one, and the victim or culprit — whichever you like to call him — is the Rev, Mr. Gulliver. This gentleman came to Aucldand with the highest possible credentials. He had charge of a large educational establishment in India and subsequently went to Victoria where, if the Press can be believed, he was thought a great deal of. Quite recently he has been preaching at St. Paul's and electrifying that somewhat apathetic congregation by powerful sermons such as one seldom enjoys " within the pale of the establishment. " To hear then that this is the gentleman Mr. Macrae's impartial and judicial mind has condemned, makes people somewhat suspicious. "If," they say, "it had been so-and-so or so-and-so we might have swallowed the complaint, but— Gulliver ! you know, it really won't do." This feeling is much intensified when one hears the sum and substance of the charge which fe mainly remarkable for its extreme vaguenesss. "Mr Gulliver," says Mr. Macrae, "has no control over his class. " When first told of the matter Mr. Gulliver resolved to resign rfnd demand an investigation, but his friends 'dissuaded him

from this course, and it now remains with the Headmaster to take the initiative. We sincerely hope he'll have the sense to let well alone. In the first place, if the charge were true, Mr. Gulliver's class is far too large for any single man to control, and the matter would really reflect back on Mr. Macrae's own management, and in the second, Mr. Gulliver is known to be one of the few masters whom the boys thoroughly respect and seldom if ever "behave badly to.