It was painfully apparent all through Mr Ballance'. speech that he was standing on a ricketty political platform, tho same old plank that brought Sir Robert Stout to grief at the last elections. There is too much solid common sense in the colony to stand the worn-out old Tory Protectionist nonsense advocated by the topsy-turvy colouial Liberals of to-day. And take away the Protection fads from Mr Ballance's platform, and he would have nothing to stand on. It was the one of amusing relief in a long and drtary evening when Mr Barrett tackled Mr Ballance with facts and figures. The questions so completely knocked the leader of the Opposition into a metaphorical cocked-hat that his only reply was that the figures were " cooked "by the Government. And then the Liberals wanted to chuck Mr Barrett out!
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5670, 31 October 1889, Page 2
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