Political Gossip.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 277, 20 October 1884, Page 2

Political Gossip.

I" '[ ksTkobipi w ;^eV, j zIaUS Mail.] ,; ! th\e I)i3trip,t £L»ii^Hy^ ,^ftl ! Lord ! Lord ! what a ! heaj) .of; iniquity that precious document. is fatjed to covet up. Je-liosophat! whed one thinks of trie past, and the, two or three neat little jolts perpetrated, ,t,he Dnntrooa aiicl Hakaleiiiuia ii-ansaciion for one. And now the" country is going to aNolve everybody^ and p.ay4»ig proniitfriis toy^arefacViil .' rogoßry*, for it aiiiounts to notluiig fess..' And a lot of. people, 'who 'deserve hanging insitead, aye io ; special I v bauent J.y it. and are now grinning audaciously and sticking ~ their . tbngueri m their cheeks. And so the world' goes round; virtue ever at a discouht,anjtl rascality at a preiniiim. „ ;"/','.■ And tne way the money' is being voted, p ecemeal, oh tipy, ! 'Half-a-mil-hon for Weatrjpit ': a-quarter ditto for G-rernip^'Cii';\anot^e)r >i 'tVo ( .)iaudi > ed " tiipu " for the Di\nedin 'ditch j over I' a-quarter of a million tojP Timavu ; say three-qUai'ters '. .'to settle the digtrict railways' quesiion,*^^ Ac, and a way. we. go iaco. %t unotlieir/. big borrowing drqnk"^a's' a peffain member, who Would J bV wortlh[y rn (^he would only don the blue ribbon, shrewdly observed the other, $B^"' Ito^wouder Atkinson aiid Co. f rqt and fume, and I writhe linieasiiyi l for ' they, have something, to, do bye-a'nd-bye, to niir.se the patient through another attsick of D.T's. And t\\e ,majority, of "the House" : swalipw'th i e l i<i!ls grefdily. Truly, oh JuliuS^thou art a great necromancer, and knowest how to make thy -puppets dance, puppets forsooih'Hho love to eat and drink 'well and lie softly^Wle^ how the means are obtaitiedi«^&a didst deimovaiisethenV- Mrftgen yesirs ago, ■and now the grQiind is ready for a second cropping. But what will the iKJttcJholders IMtfV \ ! jTflejf < jinay say whal they ,will, but one result is inevitable. IF the country is not taught .to pay its Jway out^of reapurces, the tiioe niusth come .wtten , thsve will be partial repudiation. , £>onhvidcal rea--Bdnihg wiirnot that end. Bondiiplders hivV to be cbhtenled : 'will ! i v a > -r6W,eir^iy^r > of intoi est. ,Tl}at ;is '&ss*& Wi^'drifting towaitlsi \ ' ' '": .'