Hawke's Bay Herald. SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1898. THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
As ire foretold, when It beoame olear thai po:i:loal considerations wonld be sab' ordlnatcd to a personal straggle for the leadership of the Federal movement In New South Wales, the contest la proving a veiy bitter one. The putting forward ot personal claims neaeasarily Involves personal attsok, and we know only too well bow readily slander and misrepresentation ere availed of when olrcum* stanoes thne invite a resort to them, Oar Sydney exchanges bring an Illustrated wetky paper which Nourishes aa lta froothpleoe a picture entitled "The Mukiu's of Federation.'! The Premier ie repreiented aa nursing a baby, labelled " Federation," and Mr Want, the Attorney-General, as dlgglo? a grave for it In the baokyard. There la no wl« or humor in anon a devloe. The only point la the picture 1« to be found In the faot that the "Makics" were persona who were convicted of baby« farming and of murdering the obildren entrnated to their oaro. When political opponents cm find aa better retonica than to liken ono another to the vilest and most cowardly criminals, the fierce fires of rage and hatred must be runtiog high indeed. Snob a production in a journal which rather prides Itself on lti pursde of tavagcry and oyniciim, and which le oonepiouously deficient in the finer and more genial forma of humorous allusion, might excite little or no remark. But its ilgnlfioinoe lies In the faot thai It waa Rronnded on a comparison made by Mr But on himself, who in a speech In the Legislative Council had oompared the Attorney-General to the criminals in question. All this implies a state of mind thai is out of the reach of argument, and nothing that Mr Barton has since ■aid or done, as odvleed by onble, oould cause us much surpiiee. Outside New South Wales, however, competent and dlspisMouate orltioa take raaoii the same view of matters that we do onriolvcs. It is a time- honored aayiog that "the looker. on leea moit or the game/ 1 and in this lnetanoe It 1' r,bund« antly verified, The Melbourne Age and tho Melboarno Argus are two journals which, although they are both condnoied with marked ability, oooopy suoh ilffarent standpoints that tb6y aoald only be expected to agree on matters most ibvious, and oanolnalons from whloh asoape was nnavoidable. B^th of these [ournßls, the Conservative Krea Trade irgan and the Demooratio Protectlonlei irgan, take nearly the same view of the Ituation in New South Wales. The ormer oommends the action of the local eotion of the National League of Anaralla, which is making a gallant effort to ring together all tho politicians who all themaolves Federalists. " It la not tho nelnoßg of tho Federalist," says onr senior lelbonrno contemporary, "to indu'go 1 reorlmlaatloD. His lofty million on be« alf of Auitralla is to win ; is to establish ie onion, and create the nation," And it aotes with approval the lofty sentiment I Madison, after the Philadelphia Conjntlon: "1 will ooncede here, and I ill make friends thoro, became our larrels will soon bo forgotten, and the :eat nation will remain." What a soathg comment on the eager men whloh It ilng made for the Treamry benches by [r BartoD, at the hood of the P/oteoanlsts ! To similar purport the Age congratu. ,tei itßQlf that whether Mr Reid or Mr arton gains the viotory Federation Is ife, and that it will be established on a ore liberal and demooratio basis than tat afforded by the Convention Bill, tvs brushing away, bb nnwortby of irlous uobloe, the protest by whloh Mr artou seeks to jaatlfy his factious attlide—the pretest, namely, that) Mr Reid not sincere in hie professed determlna^ on to bilcg federation to pan, bat that
be, Mr Barton, Is alooere. From all tides, and from all men who have been able to preserve themielves from personal spites and pailiian hatreds, oomes the declaration that seeing that all parties ere agreed oa the msio essentials of the amendments desired by New Sooth Wales tho right oonrae wonld have been tor all parlies to aomblne In order to have them tfftoted as completely and as soon aa poislblo, Unfortunately, as tho stars fonght against Slsera, fortune seemed to be determinedly agftlnat the adtptton of a wlee and piudont coarse by Mr Barton. IHe and hit friends— Mr Brace Smith, Mr R, E. O'Connor, and Mr B. R. Wlaestnmped the oonntry in favor of the bill, sedulously keeping ont of sight the weak points whloh they now admit mns6 be amended, and dolDg their ntmoat, with ail the skill ot practised advocates, to Induce the people to adopt id la its entirety. The Premier, Mr Reid, had glvou his p!edge to vote for the bill, mainly, as it appears, because he felt tnre It wonld not be oarrled. Bat when he saw that there was a poißlble danger thst the zssl of the advocates of the bill wonld succeed in inducing the electors to accept It, his denunciations of its Inequitable piovUlona became moro and more soath» Ing, acd it was donbtleas mainly owing to Lit oandonr In this teapeot that the vote cast iv its favor filled to reaoh the statutory mlblmnm, and that the majority In any osb6 was bo email that It wonld have been impossible to tske aotlon upon It, Bat at Mr Rela'i oiltloUm became more and more dsmaßiog, the anger of Mi Bartcn and bis aßsoolateß who saw the!] hopes being dlnlpated, beoame more and more pronounced, as augiy mcD, as wll readily be admitted, ate seldom wise men This, however, wbb not all. By th< strangest of mieohances, tbat oarefnl one reliable newspaper, the Sydney Mornint, Herald, was betrayed into an error It poßticg the number of votes polled, Thli led Mr Barton, who with hla friends wa watcblog the progrets of the polling fron an adjsoent hotel, to believe that thi statutory number had been more thai reaohed, and that success had been at I talced. Beoure, then, In tbe poaeessloi of assured victory, as be thonght, he hai hit enemies wltbia hlB graep, am I he prooeeded to prononcoe condlg: ' judgment against them. When h I was nndeoelved is is not inrprltio ' that hla mood beoame leas rather tha more placable. He had a majority, b declared, aod wonld give tffeot to 1 The raising ot the statutory minimal wbb an nnworthy ttlok. He wonld lea a oiniade to eninre Us repeal, and glv effaoi to the majority already seonrec He thus pnb himself In nntagonlim to tt Mlnlitry, whoie aaeiataoce, all the friend of Federation In other colonies tell bin he sbonld have courted. The Fremli oannob approaoh a politician who openl declares tbat he thirsts for Mb (polltloa blood, nor could he entertain the wild an harebrained notion of attempting to n duoe tbe statutory mltlmura, Tha banii between them has been raised by the ras acd vindicative action oi Mr Barton hln aolf, and, as he refuses to remove It, tt fight must prooeed to the fiolah, Unfavorable to Mr Barton's proepeo Is the convlofcion of large numbers i " electors that he Is far too impetuous, to i faolle, nnd too complaisant— ton much 8 ' amntenr poJltlolan, la short— to be ci trusted tlagle-handed with thereapone | blllty of negotlatiog a Federation ! 'i wbloh so muoh la at stake. It Is al; ' ogalsst him that be has the reputation belog conservative, and although by slnl lu h - the fi-cal ictus he will gala the »v - port if msny Blllltfl Freetraders he wl 'o- alienate many Demooratlo Ptotecllonlet fv Agr.lnst Mr Raid, on the other hand, la tl ln wdakDßcs of bla attitude during tl Federal oampalgo, In whloh, as we bß:r, se3n, be apoke one wey and voti qj another, and, more formidable still, tl re fact that he baa now been four years office— long enough to moke many iiok r" oappor'efs deilro a change. The strugg le ' Is provlsg a very interesting one, thouj ro li Is neceeaatlly marked with mm P n Dcsrblty. We thonld like to see viotoi settlo on the Freetrado banner, bnt , 1Q would appear, as the Age has remarkei d, that no matter bow the contest Is deoldt i,, Federation ebould bo tolerably safe.
9 FROZEN MEAT EXPORTS. We ate Indebted to the Sbaw, Savlll an ' Albion GompaDy for their uiual ball yearly return of frozen meat exporli - mado up to June 30. b. In mutton We llngton headed the list with 288,71 - oaroases, 257,280 legy, and 2425 plecei f Lyttelton came next with 216,145 oarcaee and no lees. Napier wbb third, a lon tt way behind, with 102,432 oaroasei, 46.06 )• legs, and 99,180 pleoes Gliborne iua v ie olose with 100,286 oaroaeej, 32,505 lori o and 34,190 pleoes. It la a curious fao 5 that while tbe South Island exporli d hardly any legs or pieces, all the Nort! 18 Island ports with the exception of Auok 0 land loom large in tbis department. Evei ■ Wanganol, with shipments of only 38,35 • caresses, tent away 64,497 legs and 92.90; 1 places, When we tnrn to lamb, a i mual the North Island li not "ia lt : 8 compared with the South, thongh it 1 0 increasing its exporti la thli branch B Lyttelton shipped no fewer than 555,94 d oaroases of lamb, or more than double th 6 oaicaies of full-grown Bbeap, the weigh ir of lamb being 19,590,843: bas comparei ir with H,795,415!b mutton, Ttmarn's ex t port o( iamb, 156.476 osreasea, was ]m c three times an great as lti export o •• mutton. Port Chalmers shipped 53,85! ' oaroasea of lamb and but 10.270 of tnuttoa 6 bub at the Blnll' even that wai exocoded D 81,333 lambi being exported to 8725 oar r 09>«es of mntton, Oamaru sont away onl] 6 4424 cmosjgb ot mntton, bat made a bravi c sbow with 46,190 of lamb, latheNoitt c Island Wellington headed the )ls a with 46.481 lambi, Napier belnf a next with 17,282, Auckland shipped 1 8822 lambs, or neatly 2000 man v than of sbeep. la beef, oa the otuei 8 hand, tho North Island had a monopoly, • Napier has hitherto headed the list, bul t> this year takes tbltd place, Wellington'! 1 exporb being 2 715,694: b, and Waltara't ) 1,734,502' ib, oompared with 1,260.6271 ) eblpped horo. The only other exportei I waa Waogorul, with 420,2051 b. Adding f the shipments for the previous half year, i we got the following totals aa compared i with tho prevlonu year : — I IS9B. 1897 Muilon, oitoiEes 1,763,532 1,337 419 Mutton, lega .„ 642 716 406 814 1 Mntton, piece?... 316.564 119 300 1 Muttor, trelgbt i In lbs* 115,603 366 84 050,551 • L tub, oaroaeca 1,132 991 1,007, 25S L'<mb, wii^hb In lbs 40,411,324 38 565,210 Bitf, wel«ht ia lbs .- ... 9,745 712 3.318,639
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10968, 16 July 1898, Page 2
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