Mr. Ballancb eat his leek last evening, and he and his colleagues took their cudgelling “umbly.” The Beer Tax Bill and Companies Income Tax Bill are withdrawn, and the money intended to be expended on the Colonial Defences will be taken to make up the deficit. Mr, Ballancb was unable to recollect that the Government had expressed their detormi-, nation to stand or fall by their policy, and he was happily able to console himself that, in withdrawing his Bills, he was following the example of. Mr* Pitt .in.the last century, and of Mr. Lowe and other great men of a later time.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5470, 8 October 1878, Page 2
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