Thing Political

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 138, 19 May 1892, Page 2

Thing Political

[GONTkIBJOTED:] * " ' ••- "Much ado about nothing " may he; t said in connection with the Wo ppli|i-[ l n cal meetings lately. Held m) the i^ sembly Eoonis, : Fealiing; -'Thefjffon/r^. Premier, Mr Ballance, opened, the bW*' by giving his views oti^the'poltacal^* questions of the day/'an(i' r of n c^ui|e'.^' paraded what his, Government' 'ti*£dP ' ' dqne, is doing, - and iii^nd&^to do. The Premier is 1 a plauaßle/ Speaker, makes some good pbitite, aM'catrfes his audience with him ; shut. w,e cannot help feeling at the same time tfiat there isawantof sincerityjin the speaker, and*— that ■; very KgU£ pressure) bSfnfp6»T bear upon him ; wcjnldj >caijse him to vacillate. To speak plainly there is the want : of backbone.- jl^6,>bjal^e-i£ the Premier thinks Jumseif , ,tha,sh^js sincere, and we giyefhini credit for the same, but taking ; a. : retrospect of his career we can come to ; no other sowf elusion than- ; we, ia^e T^^&dy--^ Now, we come jto^ the questionrofc^wiiat*' the present Government has done/3i.e. r/ i * Mr BaUance's (jQyernmenJt.. "Tj^e ';,. gentleman told the audience tnaih'is^ l Government had done more in spt^line., q the people on the land ihaii^ any pre-' vious Government. Well, it'jnust be J% conceded that ! th'e ? Atkinson j G^vSrA^ T > ment instituted ! tae " settlirig i oiiShe land by selling it on deferred payments, ' and^giving the pe^e^ual|leases.y>T&e "3 reisoh "so hacye*^M ttp 1^ land lately is 1 oh" account df r th¥ facilities offered, but the present '^Goveniment should not; teke credit, to: itself, ~ for thaV, which } * previous Government. s^TJbeii/pr^he speaker told his audience that tliey— his Governmentj— mtended to epenrnprx the MM by : mafeng). rolds/ \Sur^y)Tj this is no-new idea.;; fep^Bijs.x to Local Bodies-. Act]'; max brought into force by the Atkinson Government, principally, through lithe ?<eaferf "\ tions of Mr Macarthur, and roa4s r^yicj' been made through the new country <v which has been opened up for ;. sale; k;; ! Take for instancewhat the Manchester >n and Kiwitea Road Boards have- done hi through, the facilities oiferediby -tlie.»j^ Act. Mr Macarthur yfenir <> further, :j > , we believe, and wanted tbe Governyf;?] ment to make roads through -all CrowiL Lands prior to opening the -same lor >>i sale. If the present^^Government M-:f;<i tend to open up the : CrowniLands'byv roads previous to .offering' the sametoa >. I' the land nationalisation principal,, the Premier should not lead ithe'publie tor T think that is a new idea evolved 'out 1 /" of the brains of the present Ministry!:; K .■■■'■.. .;■:'.:. AKGUS.i/'.