MINISTERS BANQUETING.
A TREASUBY SUIiPLUS OF .£200,000. !Ut TsLCORArH.I 'i'nitrd prbBs association. i Gi6borne. This Day. The Hon. Mr. Carroll, representing the Earopean!>, and Wi Pere, representing the natives of this dißtriat in Parliament, wero banquet! ed last ereniA?. In responding' to the toast of " The Parliament," the Premier announced that there was a mrplu-j uf £200,000 for the year just ended, and said he had jnßt received a cable message from England eomeytng the gratifyir.g intelligence that the credit of New Zealand at Homo had never stood lusher than it did at present— that for the first time in the history of the colony New Zealand's 3i per cent, debenture had reached par. Both the Premier and Mr. Carroll expressed the opinion th»t a solution of the native difficulty would be easily attained, and stated their intention of tboronghly grappling with this big question.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 87, 13 April 1894, Page 2
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145MINISTERS BANQUETING. Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 87, 13 April 1894, Page 2
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