N.Z. EARLY POLITICIANS.
Our early politicians, says a writer in the Auckland Observer, with few exceptions all sought for loaves and fishes. Foxes, Featherstons, Fitzherberts, Ormonds, Welds, Halls, Woods, Pollens, ; Richmonds, Bells, Macfarlnnes, Rnssells (some of,them), and Atkinsons ; what ’have they done ? It was the partial salvation of New Zealand—the greatest social event since : 1840—the discovery ■of gold in Otagoi God knows what would have happened to this fair country if it had been given up to the devices of its politicians. Hall managed Canterbury with Rblleston’s aid. The three F’s “spotted” and'worked Wellington. Weld seized the fairest portion of Marlborough. Mr Whitaker “bossed” Auckland. Other than sordid thoughts rarely crossed their political horizon. Ormond, has managed 'to acquire the richest patch of land in Hawke’s Bay, and became the leader of what were known as the “Twelve Apostles.’’ When Wood, the shifty, made his theatrical peroration in the House last year, ithad no effect, for this reason. It was known that its bitterness arose from the fact that the Treasury chest was not open to his hand. He wasted more colonial rrioney in his one loan transaction than Donald M'Loan did in all his native policy.
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Patea Mail, 30 June 1881, Page 3
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