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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5705, 12 December 1889, Page 2

In proposing Mr. A. C. Arthur at the nomination of candidates for the East Coast Coast seat, Mr. Duulop said there was a ring of practicability about Mr. Arthur's utterances, which was entirely wanting in those of Mr. Rees. He went on to say tbat what New Zealand wanted was practical legislation, aud the presort Government, of which Mr. Arthur was a supporter, had been the salvation of the country, and the credit of the colony had been so completely restored that tho Imperial Government was about to admit English trustees to invest in colonial securities. Would such a good result have come from what Mr DeLautour called the advanced sohool of progress, which had made the dishonest proposal to tax foreign investors in tho colony ? Certainly not. Wero they going to let this partial restoration of affairs to lead their reason astray, and embark ou a wild goose chase with Roes, Ballanco, and Company V Thoro nover was a time when practical legislation was more required than at present. They did not want sentimental humbug and talk on abstract questions. Mr. Arthur appealed rather to their reason than to their .feelings, while Mr. Rees would go in for experimental government and tried, by Betting class against class, and by plausispeech, and a multiplicity of promises.*/ to catch votes.