THE W-RD-S-D-DN CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4834, 25 September 1894, Page 2

THE W-RD-S-D-DN CORRESPONDENCE.

(Evening Press,) ' ) t . two highly placed gentlemen lias been 1 j put in our bands, and may amuse our f readers. As to how wo came by it, the f public will probably learn that, when * they lonrn how our evening contempoiC I ory cnmc by the report of the Fox t Commission. t Club Hotel, Sept. IGtL .j DcarW—rd—Mcrriug'to'our con- > Vorsntion Inst night, the moro I think 1 of v the matter the less reason can I seowhy McKcnzio and I should stand by and ' see tho party burst jipib' siiit you;and ) your iiew fiibrids'in'tho Council. -What ( did McLean or Oliver or |Downio Stewr ] art or Eeynoldsever doforusthatwo < should go out of our my to serve tliem! j McKenzio is getting niore frightened of the prospect evory day;; His friends on'' thcQuiiy, who arc Business people, feel I do,.botli about this and about the rcstof < your borrowed millions. I wish we" had i never heard a word of them. -As for llecvca, ho hates you at anyrate, as • cordially as lie does me, and more than that, he fancies himself as a hit of a fin- ' aucier and wouldtakcthoTrcasurcr-ship iu a minutoif hogot it offered him. You think nobody could'supply your place, : and 1' admit wo aro not rich m financial ■ talent. If it docs come to a burst up, ■ however, I can always undertake tho i job myself. Think over the matter tonight, and let me hear, what you, aro ; prepared to do to-morrow.' . :. 1 V I ain, yours truly, It—S —.-.- | . Parliamentary Buildings, : : , . Septemberl7th.' ' Dear S—dd—n.—l liavo yoftr note of yesterday, in which you put it pretty r straight that you are able to do without , inc. : Well, perhaps you aro. You may shortly, have to try it on. You were fully cognisant of the arrangement,made 1 with Mr McLean on the night of . the f 29th-30tli June, and it*.will bo very disereditablo if you try to back out of I them now. ,It was you that started the j* whole thing last year by your idiotic ' statement that the Government ought ! not to stand by and see auy bank in tho r colony come to grief. Do you imagino ! that we could have got that Bank Shares II Guarantee Act through tho e which has been the one tiling that the ? Government has done that has been received with 'universal favour in the e country—if wo had not: promised that li half the second million should bo availt able, if need be, to assist the Colonial P ], The next step was actually your own •. doing. Yoii told them to amalgamate t and then wo would assist them. Now [. you want to shunt tho whole rcsponsibility ofE on ■ r I think it is a good joko that about n youy taking the Trcasurership yourself. l'oor Heywood, I pity him, Ho would n have a pleasant job in coaching you in .j. finance. Hutchison " and these other 1, fellows would trip yon up and dance i v war dances over your body every half it hour. You would be the laughing stock o of the country from tho North Cape to e thcßlulf. However, go on, break all your engagements, chuck your promises t. to the winds, and try and shunt on to me i. the responsibility of having made lliein. iS That would be just your stylo, aiid quite (1 of a piece with tho way m which you i. have behaved both to the llouso and to your colleagues all through. I do' not 1, know whether it is true or not, as you i, kindly put it, thai lieeves hates me at i. least as much as ho docs you. I give d him credit for too much sense, at anyrate, to think that lie will take the d Trcasurership all at oiicc without ever in |] tho previous conrsoof his life having r. paid any attention to finance or having tho smallest business knowledge or If capacity. You had better try Jimmy > r Carroll, He would, at anyrate, pick up .. .A„i ut. „„,i i,„,i :J.

i what Heywood had to tell him as quick . as you would. Don't make any jnistnko j about it, licevcsis not going, to be left ; alone 011 the Benches with you and your | nmiablo pal. He would not know how many other pleasant surprises like tho ' Fox Commission and tho Fraserappoint--3 meiit you might spring 011 him, telling him afterwards that yeu reckoned tliev s were matters of "departmental detail. ' everybody knows what has been done, " but nobody but you and I, and he know s what has been nipped in the bud before ? it mado the Ministry the by-word and the laughing-stock of the public-, lam 6 Yours truly I J.G.W— E Club Hotel, September 18th. j Deaii Sis,—Tho unblushing effrontery of your last communication disgusts, while it does not surprise me. Talk of 3 my doing things that injure the Party, ? who was it that put out feelers about the duties on coal and wheat that made j, our staunclicst supporters round 011 us; j and as for your being able to talk'the ), Party into giving up the self-reliant ir policy for what you call" a policy of cnterpriso." I should tliink you must g have found out youself by this time it is not going to go down. It is too mad ® nwl absurd altogether. I have just been ' trying—without Heywood's assistance you may like to know-to jot'dowu what really your proposals would have t amounted to from first to last, to what ; fresh liabilities you oxpcctcd us to ]; pledge the country. Tliey pan out some--3 iliiug like this: }■' The Banks—Guarantee £2,000,000 '* Assets Co. , 1,850,000 1 Contingent, say 2,000,000 The Cheap Money Scheme,saylS,ooo,ooo D Native Lands 1,500,C30 a Bonds and bridges.,, 1,500,000 10 Private Lands Purchase ... 1,600,000 ;s Consols 1,000,000 a Midland Railway 000,000 h ' 6 Total £26,950,000 0 o I do not myself profess to know what you want with your Foreign Insurance it Co's deposits and absorbing Savings i- llanks, but I suppose it is another dodgo 11 to rako in money, as if £27,003,000 was i> not enough. Tho thing is monstrous, its 0 absurd. How in Heaven's nam'o you !' cvcr_ expected that we were going to ram it down people's throats I cannot 0 conceive. Yon say, perhaps, you did 5 not expect to hunt down llicir throats, t and I should think not, but tho tiling is j too wide of the mark aud too absurd altogether. It would have been vory handy Id have had aMo money to keep tho co-operativo works going at election times, aud be able to daugloafew billets before some of llieso troublesome fellows, Mills and Lawiv were hot about it. If it had not been for that I, would ■ not have listened to tho nonsonse lit all. • As to what you allude to by tho iliings ; that have been nipped in tlic bud that 5 would otherwise have mado us the - byword and laughing-stock of the public, j 1 shall.want to have some morocxplicit statement, or else to have the words -re- ' traded. I wish you had been nipped l ' in tho bud yourself. Your great talents • arc lost here. If you take my advice t you will take the lirst vessel for Buenos t Ayres. You will bo a shining .light in . finance out there. lam afraid you will , not go down much longer here. 1 ..lam, : I Your obdt. scrvt., ' R— s—. j■ . . ' / Parliamentary Buildings, Sept 19,; , Sir,—l have perused your last very > offensive communication, and herewith I 1 , return it to you. Your true nature,div , . ested of its thin veneer of polish recently , I acquired, is making itself manifest. • Yours etc,, ' ' J.G.W—. 1 Club Hotel, Sept 20. Sin,—l re-enclose the said offensive 1 communication, as you call it You dan 1 tocp it . aiid do what you plpaso witli , .. Yoiirs, etc., 1 , ' • It~S—. = , ' Tho lust lettefi WC notice, sliows signs j ' of a recpnt peruis'al on tlio writer's part , of.tlip closing ppistlo of tlioliiiriiach. McEenzio corrcspomlencei—Ed. Pilpss ■ ' i . '