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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 332, 4 February 1902, Page 1

To say that the colonies could not supply the meat required showed that there was either gross ignorance on the part of the Imperial authorities, or there was some reason beneath the surface. Mr Seddon has an idea that British capital has been invested largely in the Argentine, and that this was responsible for what has occurred. It is pleasing to see that the Premier is determined to get a satisiactory explanation.— Marlboroug are now goiDg on between the Agents-General and representative people in Paris as to the advisability of establishing an extensive general show of Australasian products m that city, lhe opening of the cold store there, soon expected, will render such a movement

P A South Australian pastoralist who has recently paid a visit to the Argentine, writes of that country On some of the country I saw it seemed as though it were impossible at times to stock too heavily. The sheep that I saw were as fat as it is possible to make sheep, so good was the feed. These camps (in the vicinity of Pergamine and Arrecephas) carry five sheep to the acre, besides cattle and horses (probably a beast and horse to every acre, if not more). In this statement lam well within the mark. There are no vermin in Argentine that cannot be successiully dealt with. The IVairarapa district has the tame difficulty to faoe in regard to' expendhure on public works that exists in Gisborne. Here is an extract from the Daily Times : • —ln our last issue we published copies of a correspondence between _Mr Hogg tnd the Government, in which tho forner claimed that a promise made by he 5 Premier, to the effect that suspended read works were to be resumed after the Nm I 3 Year, should be honored. fepy Cl tue Minister of Public Works ms a curt refusal expressed in nineteen ;- words. This, to quote a speech by Xr o Seddon, “is hard to bear.” Will X’r Hogg bear it, or has he too much nd blood in him to sit quietly under such a •' snub direct? We believe that the Minisfer of Public Works may expect the shillalh l| of Xlr Hogg to be in evidence next sessioi; and, indeed, it is time that there wee ~ “ wigs on the green." The back-blok ,» settlers are now undergoing privation a:d hardship, while the Government is boating that it will have a quarter of a millio surplus, wrung out of broken ministeril pledges made by them. A quarter o£a n million surplus built on unredeemed e;at gagements will be a disgrace, rather tho a credit, to the Government.