The Premier at Feflding

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 128, 26 April 1892, Page 2

The Premier at Feflding

* ♦ — ■ • ■•■ The man whom the Colonial : treasurer dreads above all other men is Mr. Mac* arthur. The member for Kansjitikei is one of the ablest experts in finance in the colony ; the Colonial Treasurer is a shallow theorist. Tho Hon. Mr. Bailance is well aware that bis laboured sOphiftry^ is of no avail when subjected to the searching analysis of a master mind like that of Mr D. H. Mncurthur. Hence, he has made up his mind to get rid of the : member for Bangitikei, whom he regards n.s a stnndins; menace. With, this jptrfect ia view, he delivered one. of his big speeches, " full of sound and furjr, and signifying, nothing," at Feildjn*; , Jtfjr ...,■ Macartbur's stronghold, on ThuMaaj night. Amongst other things, he asserfjeji, that the cry about the withdrawalot 1 capital was a Conservative dodge. Meanwhile, capital is being withdrawn in large * sums, and the Premier did his best to ; hasten the withdrawal, for, according to the Press Association telegram, he . '• supported l»nd nationalisation !."J?fKat • arrant humbugj to affirm., that i the servatives had got up the crj about the., withdrawal of eapjUl, and ( .then,, i£*^i Premier of the colony to "adftocarakMj doctrine which, if carried out, mnsbajbsolutely scare all foreign capital but of the colony. Though he pretends ' that his Government is .a nop»borrowing one,'.* the Premier declared that this 'question of borrowing for roads, sod bridges would . have to be faced before long, . Jtfst ao I . We presume that he will attempt to fleat c a large local loan for those objects. It .*"■ would afford a most convenient moans of, . placating the country constituencies, ' where Ministers are now in very, bad • odour. Mr Ballanee dechted for woman suffrage, but he did not explain how he 1 ait session fooled the advocates of that snf « . frage, at the dictation of Mr Fish. The Premier probably thinks that he did a boH strolce in attacking his most doughty opponent in his own constituency, but when Mr Macarthur speaks on the same . platform, Mr Bailance will wish that he had gone to — well, Timbuctoo, or the South Pole— rather than to Feilding last Thursday.— Wellington Press.