The Earl of Meath. on the Colonies.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2363, 28 February 1893, Page 2

The Earl of Meath. on the Colonies.

(per press association.)

LONDON, February 26.

The Earl of Meatb, in an article in tbe Nineteenth Century on the Australasian colonies, states that the working man is a despotic king in New Zealand, where capital is weakest, chiefly owing to absentee bondholders (? landholders!, and that tbe only poor meo are run holders, clergymen ana clerks. In tbe Australian colonies, on the other band, be declares that capital has been victorious after a bard struggle. He states he has never heard of gooa work being aone in any colony possessing manhood suffrage, but tbere were frequent complaints that the legislators were of an inferior type as oompared with those of the early days. The Earl adds that a clergyman in New Zealand informed him that he haa haa to submit to the moßt foul language from the members of his vestry who held tbe purse Btrings. In concluding, he says that large classes of the colonists are affectionately loyal to the Mother Coontry, and only need an occasion to astonish the world.