DREADNOUGHTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 511, 19 May 1909, Page 7

DREADNOUGHTS.

A'LETTER FROM HOME. '(BT.'TCLIOUirh.—SfECUI. caiIUKSI'OKDIKT.I Ghrlstohurcli, May 18. A gentleman, who lived for some time in New Zoaland, writes as follows to a Cantorbury friend in regard to "tho Dreadnought otter:—"Now Zealand has come,to tho front again as usual, and is first into the field with hor offer of a battleship to England. Wa havo a misorablo Radical Government hero, all under the thumb of the Cabinet, mombors of which Cabinet, in turn, are hanging on for all they are worth to keep thoir oflioo until* thoy. become .entitled to a pension. ■••'• "Their, hugo majority is, however, loyal to them, and, notwithstanding any individual convictions, they vote as they are told to, oven in a matter of such vital importauco as the safety of our shores, and so sacrifice a national and Imperial question, and mako it into'a wretched party ono of party polities. Our trade is (duo to them) quite crippled; all capital is being invested outsido tho country, and none of them soem to look ahead beyond boing able to show n good balance-sheet at their next annual mooting. Au example such as,you havo shown them is hust splendid, and is most thoroughly appreciated by ovoryono."