Political Brevities.

Hastings Standard, Issue 161, 2 November 1896, Page 2

Political Brevities.

The lion. \V. liolleston delivered a political address to a large audience at the Pucearton schoolroom on Saturday night. He adversely criticised the present administration, especially deprecating the Premier's abuse of his position in accepting office in connection with the AngloContinental syndicate. He supported the present land policy, and claimed the Atkinson Government had initiated it. lie considered it desirable that further borrowing should cease. He was accorded a vote of thanks. He was well received, and frequently applauded. "What policy should guide the women voters at the general elections'? The reply is provided in very clear terms by a woman. '• It will be our duty." said Airs Schoch, in a paper read recently before the Wellington Woman's Political League, '• to study, not our interests as women only, or those of this sect or that clique or class but those of the whole country, and where we find the interests would clash, we shall have to learn to give and take, to live and let live." Thus the Grey liiver Argus : —" Poor Mr Guinness, who seems to have been puite emasculated and hypnotised by the mirage of the Attorney-Generalship, has never had a word to say, so far as we are aware, as to the injustice inflicted upon hie old and faithful constituency. His proceedings at the Banking Committee have been as a pall to his political reputation. He took a reptilian form in his self-abasement to the iron-clad Premier—and he has got his reward. It might have been better for him if he had played a little more of the man and less of the mere politician."