Is Capital Leaving the Colony

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 88, 23 January 1892, Page 3

Is Capital Leaving the Colony

— ■ , . <? . — -r^— ■ ! Everyone has heard of the lawyer^ statement of defence in the. case of thje borrowed tub returned, damaged— namely : First, the "tub had the hole in it when borrowed ; second, it had, no hole- in it when treturned; and third, my- client never borrowed any tub at all. This case has. remained unique until the Government supplied a parallel to it in connection with the withdrawal of capital from the colony. The defence to this wicked Tory allegation is as follows :— , First (by the Premier) : Capital is not being withdrawn at all. Second (by the 1 Kf mister of Lands) : Capital is being withdrawn from the country on account of the unexampled prosperity of its farmers during the last' two or three years. Third (by the Minister of Justice) : Capital is being withdrawn to make room for more capital. Fourth (by the Premier again) : The more capital withdrawn the better. Fifth- (by the Premier again) : Capital is being withdrawn because there is a collapse in other countries a thousand or two of miles away frona here. And last (by the tJnited strength of the Governnient) : But no capital is being withdrawn at all ! ; I do' not know which to admire most in this remarkable series of pleas— the litter inconsistency of all of them put together, Or the absolute idiocy of each of them taken singly— Dunedin