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The Temuka Leader. TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1880.

)uring the cmtest between the Liberals md Conservatives, previous to the last session of P .rliament, it will be reco'Lcted Jiat .dmost every week stories were . irculated by the latter with the view of keeping back a y understanding that was likely to be arrived at with S : r George Grey's Government f r the settlement of the native difficulty. The Conservatives were quite aware that any s-ttlement of this question peaceably would strengthen the hands of the Government of the day. Hence the howl that was raised by the Conservative organs against Sir George and against every move that was calculated to restore order and contentment anu.ngst the native race. In their bitter opposition nothing was considered bad enough, in the way of abuse. Nothing that Sir George Gruy's Government had a hand i<n was right. There was some mercenary motiv, or there was some pcheine of self aggrandizem mt in it. It ni-.ttered not that the statements made were gross misrepresentations. Facts w -re nt a discount with them ; any means were good enough if they could in any way damage the Government ; John Sheehan was maligned ; Mr Maeandrew could do notning right; he only knew Otago,and cared for nothing but the welfare of that provincial dis'rici. Sir George had spent thousands of public money to strengthen his own party. Even the telegraph office was shamefully made use of to serve his ends. It is unnecessary at this time of the diy to say that all these statements were gross misrepresentations and exaggerations. It helped to blacken the Govrninent and assisted the present Minister-! to get into oftVe,and that was enoughLiberal jonrnnls, ourselves amongst the rest,repeatedly gave it as our opinion that there would be no war unless forced on by the machinations of the Conservatives. We have stated over and over again that so long as Sir George Grey's Government were in office, the natives would be open to m«et them more than halfway to come to an arrangement. This did not suit the opponents of the Grey Government, consequently they did all in their power to weaken "the hold that Sir George htd on the natives, as well as tne European inhabitants of New Zealand. It will be recollected how sickening were the outbursts of abuse vomited forth by some of the Conservative journal?" against Sir George, and how we had to swallow the nauseous

dose of personalities and scurrility prepared for its readers by our contemporary the Timaru Hen Id, and it will be remembered hojr the articles in that journal eVik ifi the J P trils of the public ganer illy Almost ev*ry morning some new i.orm of attack waspresente'dT to our vie wrnrmn Itr ■became a bye-word—" Wiat has the Herald pot to say against Sir Georga this morning." Now"we would just like to draw our readers' attention to tho contrast between our contemporary's course of ;* ion 'then and its course of action now. and I jjivo them to judge or the calibre of the principle performer in this farce. . Shortly after the Hall .arty got itself unexpectedly bumped down upon the Government benches,by the acrobatic performances of the AuckLmd ltats, the Herald stopped its ravings. AlL,except ourselves, were expecting to hear of the Member for Geraldine being snugly stabled under the new trainer, to commence his drill as a minster of the Crown, under the new master of ceremonies. We pointed out what has since been clearly demonstrated that the Hall Government dared not to offer him a seat, and but for the hope de "ferred, with which that member is evidently bouyed, up and the natural affinity that exists between him and the present Ministry, we should have been treated to a new dose of the same sort of bile vomit; but squirted out against a new object of atta'.-k. Hope keeps alive, it is said, when no reai remedy h to be found for the disease; consequently we are for a time spared the necessity of having to turn away from these spiteful doses, but in their stead wo are treated to an equally revolting mixture of sycoptiauy and fawning servility, which cannot but disgust sobeVininded men. Some men are subject to flying to extremes, and our contemporary's helmsman must be a man of that sort. We have asked our renders to contrast the line of conduct of our contemporary at the period we have named, with his line of conduct for the past few months,and we think tney will endorse our opinions that the Timaru Herald is a timesaving journal. Not a weeit passes without a column or two being devoted to the praise of the present Government and their measures. Everything that they do or say is right, and were a stranger not informed of the unln-al h • const'sutirn which

our contemporary is ourdened with, he would be led to bebeve that the Hall Government were very angels sent down from above, and he could not but envy a country blessed with such able, infallable men. We are prepared to give honor to whom honor is due, and readily admit that, the Hall Government, profiting by the slips of their predecessors, have been able to make a gooo hit or two. But ther«

tins certainly been an exhibition of selfishness and party serving that would have sunk the Grey Government in a week. Even some of tho journals who are tho warmest supporters of the Government do not hesitate to express their dissatisfaction at their movemeuts. Not so the journal referred to.lu its eyes it is perfection itself Even the removing of the railway workshops to Otaggy is, in the Herald's eyes, a good and wise move. Wha 1 ; next ? The buying up of the district railways would, in the estimation of the sam'

journal, be a noble de«d worthy of being written in letters of gold. Spec-al trains nre now a necessity, if not a virtue \ gifts to tne Maoris is a wise procedure ; Titoko.waru is a hero ; even Te Whiti is not such a humbug now: by-and-hye he will be a noble specimen of hum mity. The Government dealings with the native race shows gn-at ki:'dne:-s and surpassing ability on the part, of the new AttorneyGeneral;' while Judge Fenton is as far ahead of Prince Bismarck, as the great thunderer in the English metropolis is in

mor\ Perhaps o-ir contemporary is pr<--r a~ : ng an es-say on his iifo, showing his claims for hermajesti" fav>rai>L'consideration when dispens.ng her favors. If M> Hail could only rsmo-'e Lyt'eltrn Hirbor to Timaru. or invent a machine that would keep back the shingle, he would he ad vd Mr OHivier in a marvellous gentl men. Who would have believed that O f ago could pro luce such men ? If ho would only -hurry on the public works inTi'naru he would be handed the keys of the city wit • great [ oiiif) and splendour Sneaking seriously, we think it time Professor W ;1leuunrg (no, not tnat talented (?) gentleman : lie hasn't paid for his advt. yt) Professor •-, wll, mind the name, were exaininiiig the cr-inium of our c lord of the binnacle, f>r surolv there is something gone wrong in the upper st'.rey. It will be a shame if New Zealand's little king does not return some reward to the man who so delights to do him and his courtiers honor. A Commissioner of Police? No, that won't do. Well,Controller of C istoms for the port of Timaru ? No, that won't go down. Make him Commissioner of the Property Tax ? Yen, that is a fertile field for bestowingbillets upon hungry hangers-on.

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Temuka Leader, Issue 37, 2 March 1880, Page 2

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The Temuka Leader. TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1880. Temuka Leader, Issue 37, 2 March 1880, Page 2

The Temuka Leader. TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1880. Temuka Leader, Issue 37, 2 March 1880, Page 2

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