DR.NEWMANS ADDRESS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9891, 18 January 1895, Page 4

DR.NEWMANS ADDRESS.

We are imldbtfedjto oar Poverty Biyl contempora,ry. .for .-ihfi- i.)l)awiDg gems whftß-6fe'h^»extfffld^SfrWfcfe report b3f«©ri3Nawninnyinadfog» AtOlsbihiif :— ; ' The i people 7 wera -plrandy i pacing £1,500,000 in; Customs-- dues, Qod nexo f year"' : tHe» Premier 'wdnld 'havdi another %ar¥^ltncf*ofeW. !;;i If !l t'He;^e'otile;*'l)a^ecl it, they wquld.be, like, Tssaijhar— an ass There was an arfcioj getting money for rone's district.' One poor .meiiJber pite-onsly-told him that he had got "only thirty quid ,'J, [for ;pn-blip works, whila.6 .another man gob £70,000. His,, people 'fondl/jlbe -J JtfJiWi And .pres.eiite^ „mm with a pahept.Bpverjßigo?, ..v.BijsV the other pqlfangjirauia-'got 'afafbad^aet. Govern'mentnad'a.way of makbg o_.v.ery little ■ money gPja-lonpwa.Y, , ! Woine& i:J itt Ll ParlWmenf bo nb "fleWlanovatiOD, for a 'few hundred- years ago a king'Ot-BngUifct called quite a namWr!6f abbesaeS' td vParilameut, and JMey'd'elib'B'rateu'. ' ■' j - JLast pp£,Bipij the Government Jpst some Bapporters'Stid' lieib '-BeBBioii • tafey wonld loseVmorfJ bnt the probability was that ■Ibey- would stiiL have a -majority, for. nWiflbjera wonld 'nob "vdtp f themse.lyoa to jta eoniitry. ' If a mad" had' tpiled and .sweated to cot himself. by the skin of bis toethinto a cornfortftble blllof, ho did pqb think; that jrian.'frpnld Readily .iibrdw, him- 1 self out of bW situation. For that reason he did nob think they might, expeot 'a generaleledtion till tbe end of : pexti year. He said tbat the Oppotition, bad had a very hard time ot it, but their leader. Captain Hnssell, bad' done well; and 1 proved himself a good mbn for. the position --wise,. capable, and tncbful. ' -„ „ He to|d a story, of a tour roandHndeH a friend of his had ' with Mephlstophelcs. They came to a greab pile, of anburnt corpEes, unscathed by fire. Tbe friend asked, , "Who ate - these ?" and was informed: "Why, those are tbe people who were too 'green to burn ; they be.llevod :that the Goveromenti had) reduced the debt". He asked an authority the othor day. what was the lowest price' to which Wool : coii)d ! fair, ''and' was told- that the price of wool was governed by the price of cotton. Wool Would nob go lower than cotton, which was' at 4Jd. fl List year Mr Ward, came down with a Budget wbiob, like the lady's complexion, was " all my own." He had been told that ib was an act of toavado for any member of the Opposition to go to Ghborne, it was such a red-hot Ssddon place. (Laughter.). Even if tbat were bo, missionaries did not go out to ."(ioDvert 'sairits, . but' tbe ' other- people. (Laughter.) ■ Another, bill woa the . Noxious., Weeds Bill, introduced by the Mioister of Lands. In this' bill' ft said tnV« riny farmer who jjfew, 1 or was found tv hive any, Yorkshire Fogin tny hay (bathe sold wonld be liable to a penalty of from £1 to £100. They were already enlarging the Gisborno court-lsorise in view of the passing of a bill like tbat. (Laughter). '' He 'hoped that next year they would have a compulsory Saturday half holiday universal throughout New Zealand. ' (Applause.) , ■- ■i As hod been said of the British Empire ,'wfis triie'of New, Zealand— »"lt is n conn,u^i.\yber,e'tlie snnubver Bet's, and where tho taxpayer iicyergces to bed." , r . It *va» a favorite tiling for Ministers to b'iiig down a bill session after Hession, 'tlti.i'-tli'eri to brng jibont the amount of they brought forward. What land was better for these viperous broods he did not know. (Applause). •" The liquor legislation of last f.cs iou w.f\9 anhiiu. In eportrrg parlonce it wns "tfota trier," it was "out for ad airing," wcl the rci'ult wan, as lue sporting papers ivonid f;r.,v, it v.'iw " p.rf aiifl' m a crn.tcli." (lirinphtet). In his Ifi3t baicfii Mr Ward nnid ho -V 43 of opinion low pricey Iwil reached ■betl-tock value, That was iv Juiy'lasr, I)^6 tliinga 6till seemed bo lio going rtoivn^ »y;trdiv Apart from certain ridicolous feature.' jf it, lie waa gsuerally in favor of thu i ..- ; i j • " • ./■;.-•:

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