THE GOVERNORS SPEECH.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 290, 13 June 1896, Page 2

THE GOVERNORS SPEECH.

TO THE EDITOK. £,' Sir, — What witb the vulgar abase heaped by the Premier on his opponents, and the connexion of another membra; of the Government with certain unsavory balance-sheets, we are not likely to be looked upon by outsiders as leading tne. van of civilisation. Bnt unless it has been grievously misrepprted the Governor's speech at the opening of Parlia-^ ment was such a glaring exhibition bf* bad English and bad grammar as to make one wish that Ministers would, get some schoolmaster to put their ideas A into decent English before asking the Governor to inflict it on the members of Parliament, who still have a few eduCa-; ted men in their ranks. Take, ior instance, such sentenes as the following:-— " Most of onr staple products have risen in price, and the discernment Of our agriculturists in that respect to grain growing bas met with a profitable ' rereturn." And this " The prevention of undesirable persons coming to New Zealand, especially the' Chinese, is of great importance as effecting the wellbeing and purity of our race and unduly disturbing our trade and 'industries." That keeping ont Chinese would unduly disturb onr trade and industries may possibly be a fact, but. it surely is not what Ministers intended to say. I am, etc., ' ' A.B.C;