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Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 146, 1 December 1884, Page 2

! The Banquet which was given on (Thursday.- 1 evening last m honor*of the (member for- Wanganui, the Eton. John JBallance, Niti*e and Defence Minister (who also holds the portfojia of Minister |ot 'was' m every iway af brilliant JbuccW, antjKinust have cdnvinceicK the ■gentleman m whose honor it was.given, | <that his pnblic services,-' extending as jthey do over an area of sixteen . years, hatfWt been overlooked nor his efforts undervalued,. for .thejre were persons of all shades <6£ political' < 'opinion" seated (around him, who had sunk, for the time [being at an ( wejnts, the/ opposition; fyi •years, to render unto Mr Ballance a fit* .ting tribute m return for the gentleman's unvarying zeal and activity m at all times and sessona pußhing on the« ■best , interests of not only , the,. town of , S Wanganui, but those of the whole coa^t.. [This was a subject on which all were" j agreed, and that th« points of difference ; between Sir Ballabce arid many 1 of those ; present were , gradually vanisjiing^and 'leaving them -free to* joiri 1^ he^irlaly 7 ' in ! fostering and. furthering the. growing I requirements and interests of the place 1 there could* be no reasonable doubt, nor- • that the old and deplorable party spirit I which,had raged for so many years to i the great damage of Waijganui and its I iortunes, hail given place to a newer < and better spirit of large heaWed 1 tion and good feeling, by, which au opI ponent m politics might cease to be ; looked upon an a personal enemy, and i one from whom no good services could ' be looked for. We say Wanganui is to I bo congratulated on this new birth pf I public opinion, which we truslf 'wilf^ strengthen and go on until it shall have rendered impossible any return to ; the misefdble faction feuds of ' the past, | over which, let us hope, the curtain has j been finally propped. .-. - - ■, : . / ■: ; ■