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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5097, 6 October 1891, Page 2

Mr John" M'Khnzie, who passed through Oamaru yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Mrs and Miss M'Kenzie, on his way home, looked as though he recognised that the outcry against his land policy was nothing more than an indication of the good he was seeking to accomplish. He seemed to be in good health and hopeful, and we may, therefore, expect that he will have something worth hearing to say at the banquet to take place in his honor at Palmerston shortly. Mr M'Kenzie may be warmly congratulated on the amount of vituperation that is being expended upon him by such papers as the Witness. When such papers praise a politician it is high time that lie should look carefully into his character and doings with a view to effecting a hasty reformation. By the way, it will be observed that the Maniototo Farmers' Club have passed a resolution by a large majority, generally agreeing with the principles of Mr M'Kenzie's Land Bill. This means that these representative men are at issue with the district's representative, Mr Scobie Mackenzie, and that the prediction of Sir John Hall and others of that ilk to the effect that the country would pronounce against Mr M'lvenzie's land proposals, is, as usual with their predictions, not to be verified. There were as many lies told last session, in the attempt to discredit the Government and ruin their policy, as would sink a ship, and the game is beiug continued. These Conservatives seem to think that they have nothing to lose either in time or eternity by making false accusations and waxing violently vindictive to protect the wealth of their own class at the expense of humanity.