HE DETERMINED TO LET BYGONES BE BY-GONES.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 96, 30 March 1877, Page 3

HE DETERMINED TO LET BYGONES BE BY-GONES.

v Ml 1 s |^t»ffthoa«i», member for Motoeta, wifely ttomwd his conitttaents at ,WiimetW«st. He was closely questioned by a Mr ArnoM, whose retwrks are thug reported by tUe Nelson Mail :— •• You •peak fthotrt a redaction in the estimates. bat when Vosrel came into the htune and gammoned be wn«» going to dip, didn't yo > votetonendbim Hotne.ngA«ent.General ? Didn't you now? [Mr Hursthouse: I did,] I ace they are going to reduce the folm pay 6s a day ; why didn't they re» dttce otber things P When the news came of Dp Featherston's death didn't Yogel dome down to the House with a long face, an 4 Stafford with tears in bis eyes, and Grey crying, and didn't you all tote a lot of money for his family ? Ah ; ye re party fel'ows for mimbers' the whole lot of ye! Ye'fe trying to make New Zealand as bad as ©uid Ireland, putting on it a big national debt, and making the working ffieb miserable. Six shillings a day, indeed ! I'd bare every man oat of the Go? ernment that had anything to do with tbe Yogel Ministry, and bed—d to them. What good did you or any of onr members ever do for Kelson ? They do well in Otago, but what do we gel ? I tell you what it is this is tbe poorest settlement this side of the line" His barst of eloquence having subsibed, Mr Arnold determined to let byegones be bye-gones, and with that end in view he proceeded to propose a vote of thanks, which was carried unanimously.