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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1717, 26 May 1886, Page 2

.The .Stat^ineiilt w!*s delivered m the House last evening by ■Sir ' Julius VOgrzi. We shall endeavour to give a symrnary of its contents m our .-next issubj, but to publish it m \extenßo as delivered would not be relished by ' our Veade'rs) Z : Wjs'i cftnflfltXdSl^erstind. wliythe 6pyernmentd,o,nqt // adojf{t 'Sdirie simple but effective method of supplying the press with condensed summaries of the Budget None- but the metropolitan morning journals now publish either the Financial or tlie Public Worlds Statements iii full, and were summnries, preoared by a competent person, given to the Press Assocation for distribution, the plan should work satisfactory*. The only item of local interest m tlie Statement, so far as it has reached us is (that relating to the allocation of a portion of a Loan, yet to be floated, for prospective expenditure on the Gorge (Line, and on the MauriceviUe-Wood-ville Line, which information, tqoh as IA, was puhliibid^by m » 8 aii-axtr>

After we went to press last evening we received word from Wanganui to the fiffect tha>th.e Education Board had decided, after beariqg the evidence for and against, to consider the recent electioa Of the Paltncrstua School Committee null and void, and a new election will iv consequence have to take place. 1 Theßey:M.B Wright has succeeded, so far, m gainjnghis point, and is, we hear, very jnbilantover the results, achieved. We still 'tail t© see any possible benefit, or ultimate, that. ;e any accrue 'the action taken, which wevStill think was most injudicious and , ill-ad-, vised, Both Mr Wright 'and Mr Ferguson have definitely stated that they will not stand for election, so that the former's ob]ect m moving iv the matter appears more incomprehensible than ever. . The Board-, acting on the pre : cedent now established.,^!) list in/future ' crarit 'every similar, appeal, of which, no doubt, they will have a continuous and increasing number au time goes on. We still inclino to the opinion that Mr .Wright, and'those who )jave< " prodded ;h\mon"to take" the step he dfd, will have cause to deeply regret the too-pre-cipitate and insufficiently-considered course pursued, the present and prospective effects of. which cannot bo otherwise 1 than to excite feelings of dissension m the community that every rightthiuking person will sincerely deprecate. If that was the object m view, it will have been abundantly attained, if that is any satisfaction to those interested^