THE PEEL PAPER.

Waikato Times, Volume XLII, Issue 3366, 25 January 1894, Page 5

THE PEEL PAPER.

■< (BY: ELECTRIC. TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT). "■' : ' ! ' : i Sydney. January 23. Lengtiiy t cable; correspdndence has passed; bri the 1 now. celebrated l Peel criticism!' "The ! the colony' wired that he saw Mr Peel t ; who wasi much! Icdnc'eniediJ and Jwho i greatly regretted" that the paper should have passed ,beyond, the, ( .person to, whom .it*"'.wasijconfidentially .handed. Mr Hamilton, senior clerk, in the Imperial Trearury Department, commissioned Mr Peel to, >yrite the : paper to test his ability; i,The,;paper did not become public in Gseat •■ Britain. The Agent-General asked that'the matter might be allowed to drop, as it might bring trouble on a" clever; young officer. To this Sir George Bibbs, the Premier; replied that the .'paper publicly commented on the' and he regretted that Mr Hamilton should have chosen the credit off Aus*i tralia as : the subject-for tbe test paper. Mr Peel's paper sjiowe|marked talent founded on. error but it was, calculated to do immense injury to the Colony, and should be officially, withdrawn. The iiordsandCbmmissibners of the Treasury replied, expressing"'rGgret at the occurrence,' but' gating,, as, the paper was not on the records of the Treasury, there was.nothing,tp withdraw. Every ewe had been, 1 taken to prevent its use in : \ .-London,';' and any publication regarding Australia must have, been due to a violation of private, eohfidence.^^..:,,/''..:/,^.,,^'.'.. I .^