Notes by the Way.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 961, 18 November 1891, Page 2

Notes by the Way.

If the information which we publ'eh m another column regarding the Governor should turn out to be founded on fact, it will be received with deep sorrow throughout the colony. Lord Onslow has been emphatically the right man m the right place. He has always taken a deep and an intelligent interest m the. welfare of New Zealand, and has shown himself to be fully impressed with the responsibility of his high. office. He has ever shown himself anxious to advance New Zealand's best interests both here and m England, and should he find i" incompatible with his own private welfare to remain here longer, the. Colonial Office will find it a difficult task to replace him satisfactorily to themselves and to Nftw Zealand. Amokgst the speakers at the luncheon of the Agricultural and. Faetoral Association las 4 ) week was the Hon Bobebt Pharazyn, a distinguished, member of the Legislative Council. In the course of his remarks,. MePha- j razyn naturally enough, lapsed into politics, and ventured to assert his be- ' lief that the Council was not altogether so useless and effete a bcly as those distinguished organisations, the Knights of Labour and the Maritime Council', would have us believe. : The organ of the Labour party, I smarting under the very evident coldness ■ with which the leaders of that party were received at the function, roundly . slated Mr Pharazyn for daring to say, — not what he did say, but what the Lyttelton Times reporter chose to say he said. ' Bad taste,' 'pomposity,' ' lack; of common sense,' area few of. the epithets hurled by the Times at the vn r i ! happy Mr Pharazyn. But unfortuna- '■ tflly for the Times, it woke up the wrong' passenger. The Times has riever^ been noted for its strict adherence to, /facts,! when it could make capital out of a' political adversary, and too often ;;9ucb political adversaries have treated I ; the, paper with too much contempt totrpublei to reply to it. Mr FHAnAZYN. is not of; this stamp. Personally he has probably as much contempt for the opinion of the Times as have most other people. But he represents a party, arid ■m the interests of that party he has replied to the attack with about' as complete a refutation and as scathing, a, dennncia-

ion of Times tactics ns we have peen for omc time. Not that it will have much ffect ; the Times is tro [ acbyderinatouß for that.

After much hesitation, the Government has decided to allow of approved idvertisements being printed on the back 'if postage stamps and telegraph forms. We might suggest io some enterprising | mucilage manufacturer that if he were to advertise that the £urn on the stamps was supplied by every other manufacturer but himself, he would soon feet a monopoly , of the ptickfast business. Che stamps, too, should offer a suitable medium for confectioners. Let them favour the gum with some of their esis 'tic 8, so that the purchaser has an jo poituniiy of tasting the goods. A | { savoury Bjarrp ' would be an agreeable jnovelty. r A CABOEcsKAai received from England ]the other day, and which we leproduce m another column, must have been a very disagree ible shock to the present Government. As long as the Opposition and their frien Is merely prophesied , thut the Government tactics would en-1.. m driving rapital out of the country, it was e&9y for Mr Ballance an I h\a henchmen to pose as the true saviours of the colony. Sow that those prophe,cie3 have been and are being daily fulfilled, now Ibat the State is driven to finl work for more unemployed than; even sought it before, it is not quite soeasy for the ' Liberals ' to prove their case. Bully and bluster they can and do, but that sort of thing will not induce the foreign capitalist to come hither, or the native one to remain. "