Mr Reeves Interviewed.
(Per Press Association.) Sydney. This Day.
Mr Reeves, interviewed, said the financial position of New Zealand was good and sound. The colony was prosperous and in a hopeful state. The people were more confident than they had been for years past. The unemployed, he said, had practically disappeared, atld there was every indication of an unusually fine harvest. He was especially sanguine at marked revival of uold mining. He next referred to Mr Reid’s message to Lord Salisbury, and said Mr Seddon expressed himself with great confidence as to completeness of the defences of New Zealand. For the last 10 years the Government bad been steadily putting the chief ports in an efficient state of defence.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 166, 16 January 1896, Page 2
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119Mr Reeves Interviewed. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 166, 16 January 1896, Page 2
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