A BUSH POLITICIAN.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 344, 8 October 1875, Page 3

A BUSH POLITICIAN.

MB. JACK IitTSH. AT UOME. Mr. Kush said there were a good lot of people 1 here (the Hutt meeting;—(loud upplause).—and they all seemed to bu imbued with provincialism. Jle believed that Sir George wfis brave in the -Council and brave in the field,'but he was wrongly allied. Air. Knsh then proceeded to ghe" the meeting his opinion of Mr"' Featherstoir, and it was not a complimentary one, stating that he had withheld the"endowment .to volunteers which hr.d been surictioneu by the Imperial Parliament, the Gener;.! Government, and the Provincial Council of Wellington, and that lie, as Superintendent, had withheld J la i they (it is alluded to the . they would not Mr. Fitzherbert, and the speaker was understood lo draw a parallel between hitli and Oliver Cromwell. He (the looked upon the Superintendent as tho despot in the City of Wellington ; it might not be for the evil oftheprovinciai instruction, but it had been always so. They had had elections and elections, but the Superintendent had always dune what he liked. He was sorry to have to make these disparaging remarks of Superintendents, Sir George Grey was a nobleman", and he (the speaker) had taught his children to revere him because he had seen'him in the field, and knew what he was. (A voice: Too much of soft-soap, Jack Kush.) When you give soft-soap you expect to get something for it. (Well done, Jack Kush.) ~'The people were ish to submit to the despotism spoken of, and he attributed their passiveness under tyranny to the fact that there were to? many-German pot-bellies among them there was too much of the saxon element in the people. He believed the resolution would be carried, because the meeting was packed. . Provincial Councils : were a mockery. The resolution brought down by .Vogel. for 'endowments to denominational schools had been voted against by his friend,-Mr. Buckley. (.Mr. Buckley; No.) And the grant to charity sisters had been withheld- by the Provincial Council, because they were dressed in black.