A London Opinion of NEw Zealand Politics and Policy.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 131, 13 November 1884, Page 3

A London Opinion of NEw Zealand Politics and Policy.

3010 " life following m an extract frorii a private letter received fiora London by. (the last mail : — "What a political turmoil you have had ! Three Ministerial changes m 4 feW weeks 1 As J , ; . ,:-.,;» jbsP $9 igLblegcwi^ ; inforraa us that the irrepressible Yogel heads the list * i if*gaJßh i rfH»: $m}J Jook Qut for. our futn\^! Taxation already onbearablcj" more borrowing, and consequently, Ufo .faelbtt fcmTdensJPoraing.inihe future ; .Hl^^ttJaUoii^t veryi slowly filter?; ' ijig into the colony. Passage money irad'freigbts fully 25 peiv cent.; higher than . is {good for legitimate trade. My impression is that unless borrowing' ceases tbesr poUtical: gaißblfers •will make a mess of it. .There appears to -be an' utter absence of the . JW^o* spjbjoety ;?*H.otly necessary for the occasion. I can percieve jno Stability m the present political posi"~:iiibnv How can there be, when! it presents nought else but an undignifled Bchoolbof 'scramble, snch as ocrr^ curd Rafter a handful of nuts thrcVn" m ffie- air? at the vevy time, too, ■when the' eyes of the world are jon tti&coiony ; when numbers of people are hesitating whether they shall '!'/ Wioose New Zealand or not, and not f /v ( /uitt^tarißiHg the drawback of it 4>eginning to be getting abroad that | we r .are a well; taxied people. The r Consewill be to**' Canada, backed \'n 'ndfr-M i'icilW . QaeehY; fion-in : lay, : the >\\ ■ Macq¥i« of liorne, and also by our >. lateJlew Zealand colonist, Sir E. !W. ""'Stafford, who is a director to the ' ' ■'Minitpha (Ganada)ln vestment ComT^ jia&y, Eimited, and America, already ) T^JP^PP^ 00 ' w i'lg! B ,fc I h frens&A a W* w»Jly niwst^ turn 'over a whmßfrAea.fr and. after the North Island j aiinaihimej« loompleted, stop borrpw.ii.fngrifor ten years, at' the least, *nd . try, \o get a living out of honest trade, and hbt ;" l on bor* ("•'^■^^i^^n^i^i.^j^tfrt' als£ putiin, '<- iMinistiy •ndurepresentutiyes. Vi JLn- ; question is the appointment ■;m fbi* Ageht-General to be given to a 1;i simirt'' youSg New 1 Zealand bbrn ?I) , ith^ priesent haye been quite unsntted " '^ourrieqjiure^ntK. require a 1 bustling man, and not the uv mtud wormout political horse, only fit/'HTor- after-dinner speeouieH. Hew ~ • '^iHAi ' Wales showed discretion \ m w y ftef apfloiiitment, ; Sir Saul Samuel i i /being a native o^ydney, and conse- ;-// ,^»en<ly tj^ public,', jtnow a, great (Jeal i :•-. ,-of i New South, . Waleq, , whereas ithe iixi English newspapern - hardly tee i any- ■' '-• • thing* about; New Zealand^, except it i. Jie,! .'net^ that 'we want to' borrow lA J Wbthei- mijiioii; 1 " ' -." % ' ;-:' r ; ' J ; : | ■ iii "-.'"-i '^-X „■]•' •'...'■ ■ ■:- : .<. i . ..'•'. .;•■ .■.;:■',. ' -.