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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1106, 4 November 1879, Page 2

?-Fn. PniHMSKt lias been robbed of his plumes. We, of course, mean in a political sense. The larceny has been committed by a member of tha party to which he is opposed—a party which has proreditself to be expert in the perpetra-

tion of such an operation, for has it not a political existence because it has doffed its old garments and put on those of its opponents. hen Mr. Shriroski last session made bold, in his place in Parliament, to give notice of amotion regarding the disposition of the public banking r.cci-:nt, he drev. - plaudits of cvi'jiiists. There d a pretty general iee'.i;vs that he !«• >•<; wise thing. The Colony had for i.iontiis been suffering fr"in a crisis <>f which the end could not i>c scon.and it was believed that the circmnthai the <.'•ivernmr.nt exclusively .!<•! ii ited its fund.; in flic Bank of Now w;t™ not an unimportant factor in the «.Ti>;:-res «'f th\t crisis. No wonder, then, seeing that everyone was smarting under the system, that Mr. Shrimski's action met with general approbation. Unfortunately, however, for Mr. Shrimski, circumstances arose which delayed his announced action for an indefinite period. With the close of the session his motion lapsed. It was, however, his intention to bring it on as soon as opportunity offered. But a Mr. Walter Johnstone—a Northern member —who, we presume, was anxious to perform some worthy act by which to signalise his political career, has jumped Mr. Shrimski's claim by operating in the same direction. Of course this is mean, but it is lo3t in the plethora of similar acts which have marked the official term of the Hall Government, of which he is a supporter. The position of the affair now is that the Bank of New Zealand has received six months' notice of the intention of the Government to determine the existing contract, and a committee has been appointed to investigate the matter. But. with execrable taste, Mr. Shrimski's name has been omitted from that committee.