THE FEILDING CHRONICEL AND ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1879. THE IMPENDING STRUGGLE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 70, 30 August 1879, Page 3

THE FEILDING CHRONICEL AND ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1879. THE IMPENDING STRUGGLE.

'.Ay ; y\,._...y» rv i_... y " - - '" As the day of the coming struggle approaches, the confidence manifested thrcnjhout by^ the supporters of each fef the ? eapective - candidates seems to increase, and eaph section of the electors profess tb be 'convinced of. the mOral certainty of their man' being re--j-urned.y ,Qf "course -all cannot be right, and the Jballot box alone— that receiver and concealer of broken - js >mises~wi"l ■reveal which i two of the three have been most grossly Received and betrayed. It is satisfactory to he assured that the candidates are one and all m favour , of; •of re-imposing tht, duty on foreign timber, and of doing what they canto develop, the most important; industry p'theNprth Island. We suppose we must accept Mr.. Johnston's statement that during the period which has elapsed sine?; the 'emission jof the duty, only three million feet of American timber hai been import ed^althbugh. it is noty" all fours .". with the repiesentation made to rishj the various saw millers m this district alone— and that the present stagnation m the timber trade is, dub more to' the commercial de--Sression than to the remission of the n.ty. But then we must remember that the .AfflWiqari tiipber trade is o^ly m its infanofiit present, arid" that its growth, shOuTd.;the duty not be re-im-posedv woqld more than counterbalance any effect which the jrevival* of trade would exercwo upon tW^ particular i* , dua'pfA" InArnerica thiay do i yery, hing on gran* scale, ahd with sawmills ti^iiing out m pne day as nmeh as if I p^mrre than thp generality of ours" 4% m a week, it ' , would no \ '. talfe long w_en the trade has fully developed to f&9i #;s#*- with fopejp Ow.^

We may congratulate* ourselves, therefor, on the feet that whichever of the candidate*" be returned, our representative will stand committed- to do his utmost to secure the re-imposition of the duty, and with this and the revival of trade so confidently expected as the season advances, we shall hope to see our staple interests soon m as prosperous a state as ever.