POLITICAL POINTS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 22, 2 August 1887, Page 2

POLITICAL POINTS.

Mr Joseph Ivess, late M.HJU for ths Wakanui, and now a Liberal candidate tot Napier, had an enthusiastic reception on hh arrival at Napier on Thursday last. A meet: ing was held immediately at vfßleh over 400 electors attended, and from the matiner in which the Napier Liberals are work, * ing, it is evident that the great J. D, Ormond is not going to have it all his, own way; iu tact it is quite on the cards that tb« Napie; squattocracy may not be able to get their man iu after al'. So mote it be, The Manawatu electors are signing a requisition to Mr Walter Johnston, once Minister for Public Works in the Atkinson Ministry, Mr w. P. Reeves; son ot Lyttelton I'lffiM Beeves, is to run Mr Garfiok tor the Bi; Albans seat. Garrick is unpopular with a certain ition because he will not bind him. self to aupjiort Vogel. John xiolmeo, ihe noisy Christchurch lawyer, and M.H.R,, has definitely retired trom the contest.

Speaking at I'ukekoha last week, Mr Ham, tin said that retrenchment to the extent if £300,000 was absolutely necessary. He opposed a reduction of the Education v6td. ( Speaking at Waipawa (Hawkes Bay) thj other night Mr Sutton referred to the urgent necessity for forest planting in Hawkes Bay. He blamed the Governments of the past ten years for their apathy in this matter. The indigenous trees, rimu, totara, kauri, matai, and others, should be planted for future K* quirements; . » ■ Speaking of the proposed Stout. Atkinson combination, the Rangitikei Advocate says• “ Were two theorists like those to join in • Ministry, the consequences to New Zealand would be ruinous. Atkinson’s fad is National Insurance, and he is a strong Protectionist." Mr W. Q. Smith, late of the Waipawa seat"; but who is now contesting the new WoodvilU district, will, it is said; be beaten by • Minis; tenalist, Mr McCardle, ot Masterton. Mr Allwright is out for Lyttelton, He U all right there. Three candidates are out for the Thames seat, William Fraser, James McGowafi, and James Frater. The Leader, an Auckland temperance paper, accuses the Premier of gross jobbery in connection with the definition of the Kaihu Valley Licensing District, the strings being palled by Mr Dargaville. Says otW contemporary:—"And this truckling withthe liquor traffic, this lowering of dignity, this abnegation of professed pnnffiples, tUtt turning aside from the path of rectitude hsi been accomplished fur what ? To gain the support of a political mountebank, a repre, seutatiyewho dares not faoe his old const!* tuents (Dargaville).” Said Mr Garrick at St. Albina; He wodld not, looking at the minimum of evil, be it! favour of doing away with the totalizator) and letting bookmakers loose upon the public] which he thought would be ten times worse. Southern papers are already blaming Ballance for the Maori row up North the other day, and making comparisons with Bryce. We are no lovers of Ballance, but fail to see why he should be Hamad for ths outcome of mad fanaticism.

At a meeting at Papanui last week, A speaker drew attention to the heavy expenses of secondary education in Christchurch. There are five secondary schools there, all heavily endowed, and yet drawing monejr direct from the State. Tasmanian finance is in a bad way, there being a probable deficiency on the year of £160,000. Additional taxation to the extent of £50,000 is to be imposed. A land tax based on the capital value, and an inooms tax are also to be imposed. Interests on fixed deposits in banks are to be taxed, a house tax, a poll tax on Chinese are proposed, and commercial travellers who visit Tasmania on business are to be placed on the sams footing as auctioneers and wins and spirit merchants, and to be charged a license fee ot £25 a year. The duty on spirits is to be increased by 3s a gallon. The Wellington Post remains bravely faithful to Sir Julius Vogel. It says: “Without Sir Julius Vogel the present Ministry would fall to pieces like a house of cards; He is far and away the ablest, and, we believe, really IUO must trustworthy of them all. Intellectually he is immeasurably superior to those around him. Perhaps thia fact accounts for the jealousy and envy displayed towards him in so many directions, and whioh there seem; some reason to fear is not altogether absent from the Cabinet Itself. Says the Auckland Bell: We have not the least doubt that an income tax is among the most immediate ot our fiscal reforms.

Says the Sydney Bulletin : Bunny, • vens* table New Zealand politician, once more “ rabbit ” to enter Parliament, says ho has 12 children, 48 grandchildren, and a very numerous progeny in several other genera* tiona. If thia patriarchal tom rabbit gets returned there will be great rejoioings in Bunnydom, He will probably bring in • Bill making it a capital offence to lay down poisoned oats. Says the same jocular organ: Sir Robert Stout thinks it would appear like snobbery to refuse his title. The Good Templars should look after Sir Robert Stout. He may think it snobbery to refuse stout. We extract from the Auckland Bell * “littlelist” showing the connection with loan raising of the several persons who have been Ministers since 1870 By it will be seen that some of the very men who are now the loudest to howl out retrenchment, notably Atkinson and Grey, have been amongst the greatest borrowers. The solid truth is that all our politioians are tarred with the same brush, and it is no use any ol than pretending to a virtue they de not possess, Here is ths list:

Naus. Ybabs is Ornci* Ijoans Raisbb Vogel 11 18,108,000 Fos 8 5,090,000 Gisborne 8 5,090,000 Bell 1 5,000,000 Waterhouse 1 90,000 Ormond a 9,050,000 Hall 4 1,000,000 Bollen 7 7,834,040 Richardson 10 10,018,040 Whitaker 8 6,200,000 O'Rorke a 6,750,000 Reynolds 6 6,"834,040 Atkinson 11 6,084,000 Grey 8 7,650,000 Stout 5 3,184,000 Larnaoh 4 8,975,000 Ballance 6 8,184,000 Rolleston 6 5,000,000 Bryce 5 1,000,000 Tele 4 3,184,000 Mitohelson i —