Once more the Legislative Council has signalised itself by rejecting, a measure that would have tended more than any other proposed during the session to localise expenditure, and facilitate the development of the country. This is the third time these men have refused to recognise the right to throw the cost of constructing works calculated to improve their own estates upon the public. It is time that they were superseded by persons better educated in the necessities of the times and the principles of justice. Amongst the Opposition, the Otago magnates figure prominently. We see the names Campbell, Holmes, Miiller, * and Patterson. It is unfortunate for the Colony when men are placed in irresponsible positions who are so blinded by px-ej office ; orby selfiintevest as toi sacrifice public utility to their short-*
sighted notions. But so it is; there is -hitl one permanent remedy: these wornout politicians must give place to abler men.
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Evening Star, Issue 3301, 18 September 1873, Page 2
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153Untitled Evening Star, Issue 3301, 18 September 1873, Page 2
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