Political Notes.
The Premier, replying to Mr Joyce, said there was no legislation to "prevent Mr Worthington returning to the colony. (Hon. members : 11 Undesirable immigrant.") The matter should be left to the community. If Worthington prospered in Christcburch then he said the responsibility rested on their shoulders and nut those of the Government.
The Post says the Premier's Old Age Pensions Bill is another of those reckless appeals to the flotsam and jetsam of humanity with which we have been so long familiar. It consists of a laboured scheme for the distribution of pensions without the slightest provision for the permanent supply of the necessary funds. -We oan soaroely imagine it possible for a legislative poseur to have perpetrated a more patent fraud.
The Minister for Lands said, if an enquiry were made it would be found that one half of the native titles in New Zealand had been obtained by fraud.
" One of the greatest curses we have ever bad in this country is incompetent engineers." Thus said the Premier, to which we can all say ' hear, hear/
Mr Pirani in his speech on the Financial Statement drew attention to the new lc-s.son in geography there given. " I had always (bought that Portugil was a part of Europe, but according to the Financial Statement that is not bo. We are told that in the Inlands (Pacific) there ara 18,000 Portuguese acd 6000 Europeans. So that out of our geography of Europe we must certainly out Portugal."
In the Financial Statement one paragraph ends thus:— "lt would therefore be well if the Powers interested asked for reconsideration, and it would be in the interested of all concerned to make the Hawaiian Islands the Switzerland* of the Pacific." Mr JtMrani expressed bis great surprise that the Premier should desire to condemn the islands of the Pacific to such a fate as Switzerland, as two years ago he bad said " May New Zealand and the New Zaalanders never be in the wretched and unfortunate position in which the Swiss are today."
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Manawatu Herald, 9 November 1897, Page 2
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350Political Notes. Manawatu Herald, 9 November 1897, Page 2
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