The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3720, 27 January 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1891.

Thirty mambers have resolved that the railway servants dismissed during the late strike should be reinstated, and pressure is to be put upon the Commissioners to take them back again. It is dishonorable on the part of members to bring political influence to bear on tue Commissioners, and it will be equally dishonorable for the Commissioners to succumb to the pressure. Let as hope that in this afiair the Commissioners will not place themselves on a level of the thirty members by taking a dishonorable course. Does Mr Ballance lead these thirty members, or do the thirty members lead Mr Ballance ?

A Wellington newspaper sheds tears of joy because Lord Onslow has given a local appellation as the tail end of a string of Christian names with -which he is decorating his infant son, but if the compliment were to be deemed a genuine article, why should not the child's only uame, or at least hiG first name have been "Htiia." In gubernatorial compliments the Wellington people seem easily pleased, and half a column of adulation is accorded by a leading newspaper to the infant whose supernumerary name is to be Huia. The presence of an Bail is demoralising to a Colonial community, and we venture to predict that in the birth registrations of the current year,ther will be hundreds of Huia s booked.

Mb Ballance's followers may be r divided into a few that want a live land tax, several who desire a combined land and income tax, more who yearn for a progressive and bursting up land tax, and most who will go - " for land nationalisation bald-u. Bellamy( Wm he or for the most of his followers* ao ' I himself, would we feel sure be con* tented to collect the property tax and go along quietly and peacefully, but the few, and the many, and the most, will goad him on till lie reaches the broad road which leads to financial Jisgrace. Sir George Grey got on ib'iat road and came out with a million to the bad, Sir Eobert Stout was a little more fortunate for he only got into debt half a million, and we look to Mr Ballance, if he gets a three year term of power, to drop a quarter of a million. He is not bo bold a man

as either Sir George Grey or Sir Robert Stout, but then his merry men are bolder than any -who yst tood at the back of a New Zeaian Premier, so bold indeed that he m y be glad to get out of their company before he has travelled very far with tnem.