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tho time he made tho answer This was simply a pieco of political art, clover, no douot, but ai it turned out without a shadow of interest to tho audience ho was then addressing. The land was in Auckland, and the telogram was as 'dust' in the eyes of the peoplo of land-locked Oamaru. The Treasurer is not to be blamed fur this : it was the trick of his colleague. The real thing, and only now thing, about tho Colonial Treasurer's speech was his declaration that the Government was going to drop Ll6OO in Oamaru to erect a monument to the liberalism of tho day, and to make Homo reparation for depriving tho town of its esplanade, and tho pollution of its water. Let us bo thankful for small morcie*. Ho sympathised with lho ()<iint»ru Harbor Board, and condemned tho policy of tho ltiilway Commibbonors which was ruining tho port. Then he added "Tho Government is in no way responsible for what tho Commissioners do. (> Coming from a member of tho Government this is simp y absurd. Who appointed the Railway Commissonors 1 The present Governmont, of which the Colonial Treasurer has always been a member. They woro appointed to carry out the will of tho Governmont in respect to tho railways, and if they do not do it who ii to blame ? It is all fudgo to oxpect men to believe that tho Government condoms tho action of tho Com* mißsionorn, whilo it duos not bring pressure to bear to have the evil remedied. Had tho Government been sincero about this ma 1 tor, the Com* missionors would not havo stood in their way one day. The Government have shown in other rospocts that) they can disposo of men who stand in tho way of tlieir carrying out their despotic rule.