North v South.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 79, 6 March 1885, Page 4

North v South.

The Saturday Advertiser, a Duuedin weekly journal, thus reprove those who believe that money is requisite to open up and settle bush country :~" ' Money for Roads and Bridges ' was the burden of the speech of Mr. Macarthur to his constituents at Manawatu. If anyone desires to split the ears of the groundlings m Cook's Strait, he must promise them money. It is the old story — money, money, money ; get it honestly if you can, but get it by all means. For a long time the North Island has been obsorbing our revenues and we are becoming tired of "the process, being indeed somewhat hard up ourselves — the natural consequence of past plundering. Mr lleynolds has been constant, m season, and out of season, on this point, and his remarks and letters deserve more attention than they have received. Why should we continue to enchance the value of land to speculators m Manawatu by sowing their estates with our sovereigns ? If more of these gentry are to keep up the cookoo song of money, we should practically apply to them the Prince's speech, ' I could have such a fellow whipped for overdoing Termagant; it outlicrods Herod. 1 ' The Saturday Advertiser, as a Dunedin organ, naturally feels hurt at Mr Macarthur's allusion to the sum of ,£250,000 spent on the Dunedin railway station, while the grants for Roads and Bridges m the country have been cut down to a mere nothing.