North Island Railway Loan.
Says the Auckland Star ;— lt is comforting to find that the disgraceful subterfuge by which the Premier and Colonial Treasurer thought to- punish , and 'coeroe Xfarih Island members is riot applauded, by; the people and Press of Otago, The Premier has appealed to the lowest passions of his constituents by telling them that their district would not fare badly with the carrying of the retrenchment vote, adding :— v The district that was hit hardest was Auckland; then, perhaps, the district of Wellington. It will be very hard for the. North Island people if their money for their Trunk Railway is taken for general purposes, but we cannot help that. The people's political morality is higher than , that ot their leaders, as will be seen by the extracts from the two leading Dunedin journals which we print elsewhere. Even m Auckland, whose public men were so grievously "insulted over this matter of the Trunk Railway loan, there has "not been suoh fiery denunciation of the dishonest trick by which Ministers proposed,to vent their spleen against one portion of the colony and raise funds for the purchase of political support m another district."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1507, 16 November 1885, Page 2
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195North Island Railway Loan. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1507, 16 November 1885, Page 2
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