VAIL NOTICES.

Colonist, Volume XLVI, Issue 10658, 5 March 1903, Page 1

VAIL NOTICES.

To-DAS. To Motueka— per Lily, at 8 a.m. To West Coast — per Waverley, at 11am. To Golden Bay — per Lady Barkly, at 5 p.m. To-MOBEOW. -: To Elmslie's Bay — per Haapiri, at noon. To Picton, Wellington and South— Per flaupiri, at noon. Ovbbland Mails To Haveloek, Blenheim, and PieionMondays, Wednesdays, and Fridjiys, at 6.30 a.m To Motaeka — Monday 3, Wednesda: s Tbur3days, and Saturday, at 9 :».m, TaasJays and Fridays, at 7 a.m. To *Veat Coast— Tuesdays and Fr Ja^s, 7 a.m. To Goldan Bay— -Every Wednesday, it 9 i.m.

certain ill-iiformed or designing critics will, Ye"are convinced, prove of a temponry nature only. The solid and unvarnished truth will dispel the mWts of doubt or calumny, and a colonr that can pay its way, including the providing of interest to all its crecitbrfc, and then have a £urplus bf some quarter of a million sterling a year to expend on reproductive works, musjt in. the long run inspire confidence and respect. Had Sir Joseph. Ward contented himself With Showing what is the actual position of the Colony, he would have run far less lisk of pro-Boer writers and enemies ?f the Empire striking an effective Wow at the Old Country through its oloniesby attempting to check their jrogress, and thus lesson their power of effectively rallying round the fUg, He Might also Have indicated tlat> as 'a New Zealand Minister, h« was prepared to proceed with increased caution- in the matter of the expenditure of borrowed money on public works. Such a declaration would have been hailed With satisfaction by many in this Coiony ? and would be in acotda^ce witii thfe views 'of fiidfe than one member of Ihe present Government. If the Colony will but show that it can, by means of putting the brake on expenditure><io without f urlher borrowi»g for even a couple of years, the probabilities are that the English money - lenders • will then be more 'eager to lend than we are to borrow. The reception of the last loan warrants the Government in" exerciSIng the greatest; caution in the matter of expenditure, so that the monby available, and the balance that Will remain in hand at Ihe 'end of the finaiiciai year, may be made to last tili there will be no danger of New Zealand securities being neglected, j