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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 February 1907, Page 2

The Taranaki contributions to the Home Rule fund, as a result of Mr Devlin's lecture in the district, amount to about £470. Hawera 's contribution is £220, Stratford £150, and New Plymouth £100. The numerous occasions on which banks close on days that are not general holidays is again the subject of comment in the annual report of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. "As the trade of the colony expands," it concludes, " the ennoyance and grievance resulting from this cnstom will prove to be intolerable, and will lead to an amendment in the practice." The "New Zealand Times", in a leading article ou the Premier, remarks : — "We are not by any means of those who regard Sir Joseph Ward as. faultless. In the retrospect, we see a considerable amount of haste and hurry, not to say flurry, in recent attempts at legislation, which do not altogether please us. Sir Joseph seems to us to belong to the family rather of the reeds than the oaks; being disposed rather to bend gracefully before the popular breeze, than to. stand up sturdily and fling his arms in its teeth. We do not think, for instance, that he should have ' hauled down his colours as he did recently in the fight on the Land Bill. For ourselves, Exhibition, or no Exhibition, we should have brought the members back to Wellington, and made thein eat their Christmas dinner in Bellamy's sooner than have left anything undone which it was possible to do. to to carry a Bill for which we had given pledges. It may be urged that, in any case, the Bill would not have been carried. Possibly, But after speaking as he spoke, he and his, he should at least have stood to his guns. If we may be allowed to hint a besetting sin in the Premier, it is a tendency to rely too much on the suave, when the snave is futile without the forcible." With the advent of spring cornea Victory butter. If you appreciate delicious butter made on the most approved scientific principles, ask your- grocer for Viotory, and take nothing ; §lsg t * . -