The Oamaru Mail WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURIST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1879.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1091, 17 October 1879, Page 2

The Oamaru Mail WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURIST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1879.

Tub Financial Statement of the present Government, hastily prejwred without any particular regard to accuracy, has not been improved by the obvious? garbling it has suffered in the process of telegraphing. It waa not intended to be anything more than a rash statement to catch the unwary and to defer the evil day when the carrying of the : impending and inevitable no-confidence I motion shall give usurpers their walking ticket 3. We arc not complaining because the Telegraph Department ha 3 made mistakes in this precious financial conglomerate m 33 originally confused arithmetical problem. We believe that Major Atkinson's statement as it appeared in the public newspapers wa3 as good as, ofjiven better than, it w.ts as delivered in the House by that gentleman on Tuesday evening last, those who j have read the report in the newspapers are I as wise as honorable members who heard the I original fail from this hps of the well-known : late Premier and chief priest oi tijc exploded | do-nothing party. We shall wait till the official document come* to hand before attempting to criticise narrowly the last production of the model financier.