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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 73, 25 April 1902, Page 5

In ms great speech in Canterbury Hall, Christchurch, on the eight instant, the Premier said :—“ There are times m the history of a family and an individual, when it is necessary to act with firmness and promptitude. Those people who are always thinking, and thinking, advancing and retreating, but never going steadily, are among the curses of the world A great deal of the trouble we have here is caused by hesitancy. If a man is convinced that a certain course is necessary he ought to trke it. Even if the course proves to be the wrong one, that policy will be better for him than to be everlastingly hesitating and doing nothing. The people will forgive a man who makes mistakes and does wrong if he conscientiously believes believes it to be right. But they will never forgive a man who does nothing.” Persons wishing their letters to pass through the post in a hurry should I always write “in haste” in the lower left hand coiner of the envelope ; then everybody connected with the postal service jumps about in a manner that is distinctly lively. The mail cait driver whips his horse into a brisk trot the postmaster dances a jig, and the station master rushes forward to tell the engine driver to pull the throttle open- and let her go.