The Feilding Star. Published Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1893. MORE PENSIONERS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 86, 9 October 1893, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Published Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1893. MORE PENSIONERS.

We are informed by a Press telegram from Wellington that the Premier states that in view of the treatment of Government measures by the Legislative Council it is intended to ask for further appointments to that branch of the Legislature. The number is not yet fixed, but the matter will shortly be considered in Cabinet. The country, as a whole, resented the appointments made within the last year, and objected to the consequent increased expenditure in paying men who were intended to be abject tools of the Ministry, but who proved, by doing their duty to their fellow-colo-nists, a bitter disappointment. The declared intention is to appoint more members to the Legislative Council, so that the "measures of the Government" may be passed. The obvious meaning of this is that by " the Government " is meant Mr Seddon, who still hopes to displace the Railway Commissioners. But there is a very strong probability indeed that the results of the coming elections may be a disappointment to the party now in office, and " the Government measures " to be introduced next session may not be the creation of Mr Seddon and his present colleagues. We observe that Mr Seddon, who has already begun the election campaign, intends to speak in Feilding on Friday or Saturday next, when he will probably review the work of the session, and at the same time woo the suffrages of the electors in favor of the Government candidate for Rangitikei, whoever he may be. Mr Seddon will receive a hearty welcome, because however much the majority here may differ from him in politics, everybody likes the man.