The Manawatu Standard, (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la Verite. FIRDAY, JUNE 1, 1883. QUASI ECONOMY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 149, 1 June 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard, (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la Verite. FIRDAY, JUNE 1, 1883. QUASI ECONOMY.

The following is from the Auckland Star :— The policy of the late-Miriistry is being described as extravagant^ &c.» tfec.j while the policy of the preseiit Ministry is refened to as the,?' salvation of the country." The writer ventures to assert that ; much ignorance prevails upon the subject, and if any independent. Aneniber (ii Auckland- possesses one) wilLmOve for * t returh i -iri I the House ol all lands alienated, or m course oi alienation, from the natives during the past four yeara, anil the proclamations withdrawn from lands by the Ministry m favour of certain patties, and compare the value thereof with, the expenditure 6F the previous Ministry, 1 it will be found that for one thousand squandered bj the- "Grey Ministry m cash, tens oi thousands have been squandeied bj IVhen w6 remember The thousands ol working me l n and their families thai have cleared to Australia and elsewhere, froW Wellington, and from the soup kitchenjs.pf Otagoand Canter^ bury,, during; the %t four years, and the hundreds of empty houses >ia'Welling ton, Chiistchurchi\nd Dunedin, we get ; lostf 1 m wonder at the Native Minister boasting of hi&^sifcc^ss;' 1 -which appears to lie m the alienation oi .liativeiland;. and ■at the Colonial Treasurer roaming about the country bleating about a cure for the pauperism that himself and colleagues are wani*ontyvs*asing or creating m order tb hold; xheir places m power. i