THE Waihi Daily Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1905

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1424, 7 September 1905, Page 2

THE Waihi Daily Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1905

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| ' IWI'WM'WI In the light of all circumstances tho best thing possiblo has boon doue by Mr, Fisher, membor for Wellington Citj, in roferenco to the toucher opisodo. The re. port of the Auditor-Gonsrol, furnished nfeer his inquiry into tho charges, loft no doubt whatovor in the minds of reasonable persons that nothing had boon paid It Captain Seddon for other than bona fido sorvices, and that no voucher existed far such payment, A duty was thus owing by Mr. Fisher to tho Premier arid Captain Seddon, and also to the country. Ho has performed that duly, aud in doing oo ha fl softened tho feeling against him held by the people of the colony. It is now to bo hoped that Mossrs Taylor, Bedford, and Lauronson, who supported tbe charge, wilj also apologise, and bring to an ond the diegraceful incident, It will be soen by th telegrams to-day tbut tha clerks who reported the affair are petitioning tho House for a publio'inquiry, with tho object o { tracing a vouchtr which they declare thoy handled. They insinuato that cortain iiborties, which thoy fllaim they had ut rjnht to expect, wero deniod them by tho Auditor-Goneial in tho late inquiry. Th° inuondo is a reflection on the Auditor Geuerol. whose impartiality all through the proceedings is admitted by parliament aud the country, and it mu6t alienat 0 any little sympathy that has .so far been folt for tbe clerks, The petition for a public inquiry is unreasonable, for there ii nothing to iudicate that any good would owe of it, I'ttbli? inquiries hold "till tho

crack o\ doom "would not elucida's tho mystery auy moro than tho inquiry jus' held. It 6ccms to us that au eli';c tivo way of finding out who was the author of the vouchers wobld b0 to employ a detoetivfl. Ono detective is worth a dozen inquiries, public or private, in rant', tore of tho vouchor description. It is very likely tho clerks woro the victims of ft hoax, anil tliftt tho alleged voucher m a bogus doenmont placed by tho hoaxer in a. position wliero tho clerks could 808 it, and that alter they had seen' it the hoaxor destroyed the paper, loaviug tho sequel to his willing victims. If tho alhi r | whs R hoax, it is not so much tho hoaxer who is to blame as tbo simpletons who foil a proy to him; aud tho course they .'should now tako is, lo ask, not for a publio inquiry, but police action, or to acc>;pt with resignation whatever odium befal them. It is clearly a caso for tho policy who are tho best able, on account of thcii . ejporionco, to locato the forger of th e doonmenti •