North v. South

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 109, 28 February 1885, Page 3

North v. South

♦ The Saturday Advertiser, a Dunedin weekly journal, thus reproves those who believe that money is requisite to open up and settle bush country : — " ' Money for Roads and Bridges' was the burden of the speech of Mr Macarthur to his constituents at Manawatu. If anyone desires to split the ears of the groundlings in Cook's Strait, he must promise them money. It is the old story— money, money, money ; get it honestly if you can, but get it by all meanß. Eor a long time the North Islandhas been absorbing our revenues and we are becoming tired of the process, being indeed somewhat hard up ourselves— the natural consequence of past plundering. Mr Reynolds has been instant, in season and out of season, on this point, and his remarks and letters deserve more attention than they have received. Why should we continue to enhance the value of land to speculators in Manawatu by sowing their estates with our sovereigns ? If • more of these gentry are to keep up the cookop song of money, we should practically apply to them the Prince'^ speech, ' I could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-nerods Herod." The Saturday Advertiser, as a Dunedin organ, naturally feels hurt at Mr Macarthur's allusion to the sum of £250,000 spent on the Dunedin railway station, while the grants for Roads and Bridges in the couutry have been cut down to a mere nothing.