The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4012, 14 January 1892, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1892.

The Premier seems to have air easy way of facing difficulties I He simply pooh I poohs! I them, declares they don't exist, and regards them as the invention ol his enemies. For example, on Tuesday last he carefully explained that the alarm about capital leaving the country was a false one, and that there was absolutely nothing in it, On the same day a cable reached Wellington stating the stepstakenbyhis own Agent-General,' Mr Peroival, to allay the irritation which he asserted did not exist m London, We should consider that the suppression of palpable facts which cannot be disputed, will hardly help to raise him in the opinion of era the City of Wellington electors. Another littleincident cropsupequally BUggeßt.ivo of the Premier's tendency to disguise unpalatable truths, There has been a big Native meeting at Parikino, and it has gone forth to the world through Mr Balance's own political organ that the seventeen hundred Maoris who gathered at that spot met for a sort of afternoon tea, and that they were never so happy before in their lives as they are now. Unfortunately, a certain Legislative Councillor who, we believe, owed his elevation to Mr Ballance, made some private inquiries of his own through Oolonel M'Donnell (who by the way lias received at least one personal favour from the present Ministry, The old friends of Ministers seem to be somehow'or other turning roupd upon them. Even at Eketahuna certain ardent supporters of Mr '■ Ballance are furiously raging together because certain other supporters have the privilege of making a pound per day out of certain contracts, and this is a tiling that breaks down the truest patriot,) However, it appears that the natives mustered at Parikino assembled to condemn and denounce the Government legislation, Of course, under these circumstances Ministers are blind and dent I They don't admit that there is a hostilo feeling towards them on the part of the Maoris. The position they appear to take is, first, that there is no native trouble, and second, that steps are being taken to remove it, Just in the same way that Mr Ballance declares, first, that there is no trouble amongst capitalists, and secondly that the Agent-General is putting it right.