THE Temuka Leader. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1893. THE RIGHT COLOUR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2577, 4 November 1893, Page 2

THE Temuka Leader. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1893. THE RIGHT COLOUR.

From the latest information to hand from ~ we learn that Mr Fish is certain Dunecm* - Parliament again. This to be elected to _ - It is pleasant is pleasant for Mr Flsn. -i no for anyone to work for people appreciate his labours. Mr Fish has worked for the publicans of Dunedin, with the result that they gave him a great ovation, and a public presentation, and will send him back to Parliament. Mr Fish is wise in his generation. If he had worked for the temperance party he would run the risk of getting more kicks than half-pence. We are impelled to make these remarks owing to something which has just occurred. The Cheviot estate sale is advertised in almost every newspaper in the colony, weekly, biweekly, daily, and so on. Believing that people in this district have as good a right to know all about the Cheviot estate, and when the sale is to take place, as residents in other localities we wrote to the Minister for Lands asking for authority to insert the advertisement which is to be found in all other papers, and the following is the reply we received from the Land Department in Wellington : “ In reply to your memo, of the 27th inst., soliciting an order for advertising the sale of the Cheviot, I regret to inform you that your application must be declined, as the notice has already been sufficiently published. “A. Baron,” Now what is the use of being of the “ right color.” We have done all we could, and more than many would have done, for the present Government, and this is how wo are repaid. The coat of the advertisement would come to a little over £l, and we can live without that, but we object to this paper and this district being ignored as it has been. The department, however, has aimed at getting advertised on the cheap. It has sent down Mr March to hold meetings so that he may be reported in the papers, and get the thing thus advertised on the cheap. Let

the papers which have received the advertising report Mr March, but we shall not do it. There are hundreds of pounds spent on advertising in the large towns, and yet here in a rural district, where the people likely to take up the land reside, not a single penny is to be spent. This is the “ how-not-to-do-it ” way of going about the business, and we think it as well to let the public know how it is done. At any rate, it will be seen “ the right color ” does not always pay ; indeed, we have never found it do anything for us, and we doubt whether it ever will.