NO IRISH NEED APPLY.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 144, 4 September 1895, Page 4

NO IRISH NEED APPLY.

Irish mackerel has come under the condemnation of the Government, It has been mada the subject of des> patches betweon his Excellency the Governor and the Marquis of Ripon, the late Secretary of State for the Colonies. It arose in this wise. The people engaged in the Irish fisheries Bent a letter to Lord Ripon requesting him to cause inquiries to be made in the Australasian colonies as id whether it would not be possible td open up a market in each of the colonies for mackerel cured in trfelatldi They offered to send th rough the in* spectors of the flsheriea samples of the cured flsb, gratis to firms of standing in the colonies, so that the people might have an opportunity of trying the flsb. Lord Ripon wrote to New Zealand as well as to the other colonies, and this id the reply he received. It appears in the Parliamentary papeea just ie» sued: —" Government Houne, Wei* lington, Septenber 23rd, 1894 Mj Lord, —I have the honour to inform you, in reply io your despatch, (New Zealand, No 27,") dated June 22nd, 189-1, that my Government do not desire to encourage the Jintroduction of foreign-cured fish of any descrption into this colony, and consequently there is no opening for Irish cured mackerel here. I have &c, Glasgow t The Right Hon. the Marquis of Ripon K.C.MG., Secretary of State for tbe Colonies." His Excellency must sometimes feel rather mean at having to act as the mouthpiece of such small* minded advisers as those with whom he is at present blessed with in Wel« lington. Should the old country shake herself up into retaliation ono of these days, and notify New Zealand that she means to adopt the same attitude towards our frozen mutton that we through our ministers have taken up towards Irish mackerel, we will have rather rudely forced upon us a better understanding of the foolishness of our present narrow-minded policy.