The Government Rebuked

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7137, 20 November 1894, Page 2

The Government Rebuked

Lokdo*. Ndv. 19 —The Times, referring to a cablegram published to the effect thai the remarks of the Hon. J. G. Ward, in the closing hoars of the New Zealand Parliament, that Ministers woald visit Bamoe were intended jocularly, oondemns the behaviour of New Zealand politicians.

Oa this matter the Welliojrton Post ■ay* :— '* Hrn Premier of Great Britain bas •pokeo, and has h*d the temerity to rebnke th« Premier of New Zealand. It will be bat scant encouragement for Mr Seddon to nrooeed in the flloemoa on his projected filibosterin| picnic to Bejaoa to read that on Friday, 10 the Guildhall of Londoa, LotvJ Roeebery said that 'the rumors that New Zealand desired to administer the affair* of gamoa aie too lidioo loos for official contra diction.' Surely Mr Seddon will not tamely submit to this affront to bU dignity, hh prcetigft, aad bis power. Bnrely the British Premier cannot have read the last debate of oar last Parliamentary session, or he woald have known that oar Prime Minister then Mid. with a foil mom of bit dignity and re■poaubiliUee, that ' his Government had no desire for more than this, that there sboald be peace there, and be saw no more difficulty in preeervina the tjamoan raoe than we had experienced in preserving the Maori race ;' aad (or bis desire to do that which the great set civilisations of the world hesitate to te«oh, he is floated by Lord Roeebery in a Eblic speech in the Goildhall of London 1, jesUog apait, it is well that this crushing rebuke of the British Premier has end«! a rtdicoloos <pleode, that could only han* been cowoeUed by a man drank with power and consumed with foolishness. This is but j serry comfort to as. however, for Mr Seddoa has covered New Zealand with ridicule as j well as himvelf." Nodonbt Lord Reeebcry'a oatspokeo atUrsaoe oa this matter will mean the abandonment of the Parliamentary picnic to Samoa, which, despite the assertion that the proposal was jocular, woald in ell probability have taken place.— Truth, Christchurch.