The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. TUESDAY, DEC. 17, 1889.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2720, 17 December 1889, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

TUESDAY, DEC. 17, 1889.

Equal and exact justice t" ; '" mmetn t . Ot whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political.

It is cause for congratulation for the colony, generally, and for the electors of the East Coast in particular, that they have chosen Mr Arthur as their representative, and discarded Mr R.ees. We consider it a strong and healthy evidence that the days of the professional politician and windbag are numbered in New Zealand. lieyond his brief though practical address to his constituents, which bears a truthful honest ring about it. we are politically speaking, unacquainted with Mr Arthur. But Mr llees wo do know, and know well. We have suffered hiui in the old days, when in our uu thinking simplicity, ivfi considered it the thing and statesmanlike for a man to talk for days together, upon abstract questions of no particular importance, to anyone, while the country was fast drifting to the verge of bankruptcy, the effects of which we are only now slowly, but surely surmounting. Our only wonder is that so many should be found to vote for Mr Kt-es, anil that out of some thirteen hundred electors, Mr Arthur should only count a possible majority of ~rl. Can the influence that secured tlio return of Mr Graham to the lasting shame of the electorate have been at work in the iuterosts of Mr Eees? If so, it is much to be deplored, and tne sooner our friends of the East Coast see the error of thoir ways, the better for themselves aud the colony. Howover, ■'all's well that ends well." Mr Kces has been relocated to the shades of private life aud tho practice of that profession, of which, doubtless, ho is an ornament, aud New Zealand, together with weary legislators aud suffering Hansard officials, breath freely ouee again.