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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1603, 8 January 1886, Page 2

Perhaps the most important, , part of the Premier's speech, says the Timer* Herald, is its conclusion. He tells at that be " will not be a party to any wild scheme of borrowing," Can it then bethat he disapproves the monstrous pro* posalß shadowed forth m such « sedne^ tive manner by his colleague thfColoßial Treasurer, the other day* W% observe that he explains himself by saying that " moneys borrowed should beexpended on reproductive Works that: would pay. some interest." The question is, of course, what m Mr Stout* opinion constitutes reproductive works f Would it be a reproductive undertaking to borrow three or four millionsat 4 per. cent, to construct the West Coast Bailway, which, m the opinion of its sauguine.fisQpportera, may perhaps return one or.two per cent., but wliiob the outside public firmly believe will leave » deficit on the working expenses? Tni* is a point on which we should like soma definite information. ..' ■ ' * A shipload of unmarried girls arrived! at Sydney oarly last month, and "75 of them* were on offer for hire one d»y. The candidates for the 75 girls numbered over 250, and, says the Herakt t it musk be said that the young persons for whom the' competition was so great, were not at all, m appearance or braring, desirable additions to any family. Of course, there were exceptions, but as a rule the girls were so uncouth m manner, so ignorant, so untrained, and so exorbitant m their domands, that several ladies wh» wanted servants, and who looked as if they would have made good mistresses, left the hiring-roem m disgost soon , after it was opened to the. .public. It really seemed as if the would-be mistresses and * not the inust»be servants were on trial. ' [