The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3841, 25 June 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1891.

Mb Macarthur insinuated something in the House ; about the Postmaster* General and dummying. The Post-master-General got very angry and read a telegram from Dr Fitchett exonerating him; be declared that all he had done was according to law. It is evident from this admission that the Postmaster-General has done [ something, only that something, even if it has been a trip to dummy laud, has been in accordance with law, but why not let the public know what that something is. Ministers will have to face the musio yet, however well they may have succeeded in getting the enquiry hung up at the Waste Lands Board,' Wo have pot so far, viz., that three blessed confederates simultaneously applied for a certain section which has been labelled "dcmmy," viz., Messrs Fitchett, Anderson and Ward, we have a certificate from Dr Fitchett that Mr Ward is innocent, a certificate from Mr that Dr Fitchett is innocent, and pogßjbfy a certificate from Mr Wajtf thai Anderson is innocent. Thw is all very nice, but it only stimulates the public curiosity to know under which thimble thedummy pea is to be found. If] tfoets were no dummy pea, that cele- j brated dgmmy hunter, the member for Masterton, woflldftoj; have hushed the matter up at the Wast® Lands Board. i

Mb Bryce,ui conclacbng his speech an tbfl financial statement, declared that the policy of the Government, by stopping tlie flow of capital to the soil, will prevent the employment of labour. This means broadly that under th 9 Ballance ministry the Ayndnn of labour from the Colony will be aagausoted and that by and bye wages will eo®e&>wn with a run. All the political agitation m the world won't keep up the rate of w*g«s, &s, the conditions favorable to this are Ist political rest, 2nd, the confidence of men of capital. Th 9 ministry by their proposed changes violate both pf these conditions and the real «ui# P rara will be the unfortunate wotfcers who are putting a blind trust in diem instead «j£ mty JW* own common sense.

According to our local contempti rary Mr Hogg has moved in the House for. certain letters, telegrams, and petitions to be tabled. Will- be include in the. batcb a certain interesting letter which he is supposed to have written to the Minister of Lands on the subject of dummying, a tetter which caused him to be regarded in

tb e light of a' secret informer, and' which"has cost the Colony several hundreds of pounds? If the member for Masterton desires to give the public an eye-opener let him move tliat his own corraspondence withthe Minister be published.