ECONOMICAL POLITICIANS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4255, 16 January 1884, Page 2

ECONOMICAL POLITICIANS.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWX CORRESPONDENT.]

Cambridge, this day, Whatever our legislators may do with public money, from the following incident it would seem that they are decidedly in favour of retrenchment in administering the funds of the private purse. Mr Montgomery, M.H.R., and party arrived here on Monday en roi/le. for the Hot Lakes. They asked Mr Carter, coach proprietor, what he would convey them through for. Carter replied £3 a head or £15 for the lot. They considered this a monstrous imposition, and then tried Mr Kirkwood. The latter named i.lO, but even this figure they looked upon as unwarranted extortion." They went back to Carter, and he, hearing what Kirkwood would do it for, reduced the price to £S 10s. Once more the cry of monstrous extortion was raised, and the party sotabout badgering Carter to knock off the odd 10s, which he consented to do. Having got seated in the conveyance, the five practical economists, smirking all over with satisfaction at having "fixed the cabby," invested their sparo dollars in one bottle colonial wine to satisfy the inner cravings of the party on a sixtymiles journey, and started otT to see the wonders of the interior like a number of schoolboys off on a holiday.