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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 155, 25 June 1891, Page 2

Some ill-feeling has been excited in the minds of a few ftf the nsmbers of the House, who did not receive invitations to be piesent at a ball given at Government House shortly after the opening of Par hament. This omission, if intentional, was a blunder, been use all mombersj should be held in equal es-teom hy His Excellency. Our respected contemporary the Napier Telegraph, feelingly obscrvos that some members eeetn to forget that a seat in Parliament does not neces--B'wiU make their society agreeable to an assemblage of ladies and gentlemen, any more - than dues their presence in the House of .Representatives confer honor upon that body. The honor is t'other way about;, but it does not give them the c dree to Government House, " and why," sarcastically asks our contemporary, l- in the name of common sense should it?" Clearly the Napier Telegraph is not a Liberal Journal or it would not express a doubt that any M.H.R. is fit for any society from the highest to the lowest. We take it that had the gentleman who were overlooked, attended the Governor's levee in connection with the Queen's Birthday, and left their cards in the usual way they would have received the coreted invitationß*

Irf a leading article on the Financial Debate, the Wanganui Herald, said> in respect to the charge made by, Mr Bryce against the Government * that Messrs Monro and Simpson were retrenched because they held certain political opinions : " Mr Bryce was wide of the mark, so far as Mr Munro was concerned) as the latter gentleman stated both before and. after the general election that he intended to and had voted for Mr Ballance." There must be a mistake somewhere^ because Mr Munro is not on any electoral ' roll of the colony. '