The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3867, 21 May 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1881.

'•The cry ii still they come: pre-sessionai addresses at this time of tbe year are as thick as autumnal leaves that stror the brooks in Yallambrosa. Par liftmentary great guns and Parliamentary little guns all join in the fray, culminating in a general salvo just before the session. Mr Macandrew, whose address we published yesterday, is the latest historian of the doings of tbe 1 Past session, and occupying as he does' • position only second to that of Sir Geo. Gray in the ranks of the Liberal party, hit remarks ere entitled to some consider* ation. Mr < Macandrew condemns the Property Tax, as every right thinking man should do, not on account of the tax itself, but from the fact that it in a barefaced attempt to prerent the taxation of land. He refuses to give tbe Government credit for the retrenchment policy, saying it waa. forced on them by the House. And, r»fter, all, what does the retrenchment awotrat to ? A numerous array of poor clerks have been dismissed, while Govern* mef.t supporters are gorged with fat apftotntments, and Resident Magistrates tsJcenj away froth their districts, to. the gl.-eat iueouveiiieuce of the public, simply for the purpose of getting through the

Native Lands Courts as much stolen land •a possible before Parliament meets. Mr Maeandrew favours a return of immigration and the completion of the Public Works PoKey: of 1878, He is evidently still Wrongly tjarftfad with Provincialism, and think* that the local bodies should beMiimilated to those institutions of bygone day.. There i« no doubt but that the County system has failed in many ways. All through the speech can be jeen the chord of sympathy connecting his idea* wUh those of Sir George Grey, and we feel sure that with two such men at the head, the Liberal cause, and Right must in the end prevail. ..._.. ,