SECOND EDITION. ICY INDIFFERENCE.

Mataura Ensign, 27 January 1912, Page 5

SECOND EDITION. ICY INDIFFERENCE.

FEDERATION PROPOSALS. NEW ZEALAND CRITICISED. Hi a.FOTVTC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. K ■-VTTBIJ PKKSS ASSOCIATION. 1? • cx-ived January 27, 8.50 a.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 27. The 'Daily Telegraph,' in a leading arziele, says the people of New Zealand do not ieem fired with the resolution passer: by tuo rcrkiai Labor Conference i:iat negotiations i'or closer relations between Australia and New Zealand should be immediately opened and ■ banteringly adds: "The New Zealanders' attitude suggests the iciness of workers who had been offered an Irish rise in the sliaoe of a reduction in wage. The dismal and utter absence of any .signs of corroborating Mr I'isher's <the Federal Prime Minister) forecast that New Zealand may join the Federation within 20 years suggests 'ihat tlie New Zealanders are people who seltishly consider themselves first and have lost all sense of what might have been done for them and to them by four-days-off Australia under (Jovcmiuent.-? beneficently bent on turning the Federation into a class autocracy which shall bo a law unto itself. Jn their contemptuous indifference—or is it ingratitude?—these islands display i no sense of humor. I