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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4788, 1 August 1894, Page 2

Thbhb lira a few finnnciers'-inNow Zealand who may be classed as Brobdingimgians. These' are 'the meu who control the thirty millions of money which aro lent out to colonists under mortgage, Treasurer i Ward and Premier Seddon fancy that they themselves are Broodingnagians, but as yet thoy are in matter's of finance plain Lilliputians and it is here that they are getting themselves into trouble. Even, the little tussle they have recently had with a certain Bank Brobclingnadjan has not taught them wisdom, although they must admit that they':have emerged from it in a singularly limp condition. Thoy still are under the delusion that they are financial

Brobs, of • the first water, - and want to chip in their million and a half of borrowings.againßt the. thirty .mil-' liorispf tho Anaks. The; monarclis l of tinanco will survey this onslaught ! with; smiling serenity, ; and some future historian will relato how they i played a little 'game with these Lilliputian heroes, possibly put all their bad business into their way, served them up on toast and made theni an example which deterred all subsequent political explorers from rashly venturing on "Tom Tiddler's ground.":