THE Temuka Leader. TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1891. THE HON. MR ROLLESTON.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2224, 7 July 1891, Page 2

THE Temuka Leader. TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1891. THE HON. MR ROLLESTON.

Mu Rolleston is respectable, intensely respectable, nothing but respectable, in fact, he is so much so that had he lived in ancient days of heathen mythology he would have been transmogrified into the god of respectability. His respectable soul is shocked at the treatment Judge Edwards has been subjected to. He has nothing to say ugainst the Ministry who placed Mr Edwards as an incubus on the Colony's back at a cost of £2500; he does not consider that this was done to injure Judge Ward; he believes the appointment was legal, notwithstanding that the judges are divided on the subject, and he seems to think of nothing only that the present Ministry are awfully and terribly wicked. Then Mr Richardson accused the present Ministry of having made public the Royal Commissioners' report on the Public Trust Oifice before it was submitted to the Govern or. Mr John McKenzie denied this, and said it was the talk of "Wellington before the Government had anything to do with it. Mr Rollestons respectability got another great shock, and notwithstanding Mr Richardson's denial he repeated the accusation. Respectable men would have accepted Mr McKenzie's denial of the charge, but Mr Rolleston's respectability is of a higher order, and he would not accept it. Then he was very much shocked at Mr John McKenzie using strong language in denying the accusations made against him. His pure soul abhorred the terrible notion of a Minister of the Crown using strong language in defending himself against lies, but he was not always so punctilious. When he was associated with Sir Harry Atkinson in the Ministry he never complained of the strong language Sir Harry frequently used when he put on his hob-nailed boots. That never troubled him, because he was paid £1250 a year then for backing up the hob-nails. Then he lectured Mr McKenzie, and asked why should he (Mr McKenzie) assume that he is the only man who can administer the Land Department? Mr McKenzie never assumed anything of the kind, but if he had Mr Rolleston ought to be the last man to take notice of it. No one ever has bragged and boasted more frequently of his good deeds than Mr Rolleston himself. At one time he was .so addicted to boasting of what he did when he was Superintendent of Canterbury that he used to be laughed at.' Some twelve years ago a political play was put on the stage in Christchurch, and one of the characters in it represented Mr Rolleston, who was running in at every corner saying " When I was Superintendent of Canterbury." But the beauty of all Mr Rolleston's speech is his defence of Sir John Hall's gridironing. Sir John Hall, he said, had won the respect and esteem of the working classes, as attested by the fact that he had always been elected. It is very easy for a rich man like Sir John Hall to win respect and esteem. He has only to be affable and agreeable, and distribute a few pounds judiciously, to win esteem. Sir John Hall is just the man to do it. He gave half his honorarium away this year, and of course he is in consequence a splendid man. There is no use in prolonging the subject; Mr Rolleston is too respectable to be liberal. He prefers to associate with men suspected of shady transactions with the Bank of New Zealand, than with working men's representatives, such as Messrs Earnshaw and Pinkerton. Mr 'Rolleston is gone completely—body and soul, respectability, and all—into the Tory camp, and is now amongst the most thorough-going Tories in the Colony.

ANGRY DEBATE. The Financial Statement has been under the review of Parliament for the last fortnight now, and the most intemperate, violent, and angry speeches have been made, yet nothing like a criticism of our financial position has been indulged in. The speeches are really descreditable to Parliament. They are unbecoming in their violence, doubtful as regards facts, and they deal with everything except the matter at issue. The Financial Statement consists of a review of the fiancial position of the Colony, as well as disclosures of future policy. Discussion ought to be confined to the subjects dealt with in the statement, but instead of that the critics of the Government have preferred to indulge in the most violent denunciation of the acts of Ministers during the few months they have been hi office. Mr John McKenzie has come in for more than a man’s share of the abuse. He is undoubtedly the most popular and the most trusted of all the Ministers, and consequently lie is attacked the fiercest. Mr McKenzie made great changes in his department; he changed all the Chief Surveyors because he found it necessary, and for tltis he has been violently attacked. He effected considerable retrenchment,

but his opponents insist that he has increased expenditure. They say ‘‘ Look at the estimates; he is going to spend more money this year than was spent last year.” He replies “ Yes, I want to settle people on the land, and I must have money to get the land surveyed. I am going to spend the money on useful work, not on useful workmen.” They say “ There are more civil servants now than before you took office.” He replies “Where are they?” Here are the figures : Last year the number of civil servants was 2380, this year the number is 2315, or 65 persons less.” But it is very little use for Mr McKenzie to reply to accusations. iThe Christchurch Press, the Otago Daily Times, the Timaru Herald, and the other Tory papers cook his replies and give the accusations in extenso. The Press of last Saturday quoted long extracts from Mr Richardson’s speech, but did not give a single word of Mr McKenzie’s explanation. Mr McKenzie has characterised Mr Richardson’s speech as a tissue of misrepresentations and has proved it. For instance, Mr Richardson stated the number of civil servants had been increased by 11. Mr McKenzie showed by prepared returns that the number was 65 less. Is it fair for the Tory t papers to give Mr Richardson’s speech without giving Mr McKenzie’s side of the question ? But there is not the slightest intention on the part of the Tories to be fair. They have nothing to go upon except lies, bold and unblushing lies that will travel. By this means they hope’to weaken the Liberal Government; they know they have most of the papers at their back, and that if they can get the lies in print it will take the Government all their time to contradict them. But there is one single fact to Avhich people at this distance from Wellington can cling, and it is that all the lying has not had the slightest effect on the members of Parliament to whom the truth is known. The Government have not lost a single follower yet, and if the charges made against them by ex-Ministers were true there cannot be the slightest doubt but that they would have had the effect of driving some away. Instead of that, however, they are getting stronger and stronger every day, and not only are their own followers supporting them most zealously, but some members of the Opposition, and most, if not all, the independent members have expressed their determination to support them. Let the Tories lie, and let their papers print them as often as they like £ here is a fret worth a thousand arguments: The Government have the confidence of Parliament, and if they were the rascals they are painted they would not have it. That is a little fact to which we can cling, and cling to it we will until we have better evidence of Ministerial wrongdoing thon the angry vituperations of the Ministers who thwarted enquiry into the Bank of New Zealand charges.

YEAST AS A TYPHOID CURE. We published in our last issue the result of a trial given to yeast as a cure for typhoid fever in the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. The doctor who conducted the investigation admits, apparently with reluctance, that it was successful, Out of 37 cases treated with yeast every one of them recovered without a relapse, whereas under the ordinary treatment, there was a relapse in every six cases. That we should think, was most encouraging, and yet the doctor spoke dubiously about it. Now this cure of yeast is a very old one. There is in Temuka a man who was cured by it close on 40 years ago, and it was an old remedy then. It is not that it has been kept a close secret; it is. published in books, and nothing is more surprising than it is only now that the medical faculty is beginning to hear of it. The remedy was discovered in a peculiar way, by Dr Cartwright, the inventor of the loom powor. Dr Cartwright was a benevolent Church of England clergyman, who, to alleviate the sufferings of the poor, studied medicine to some extent. On one occasion he was attending a boy aged 14 years, who under the ordinary remedies grew so much Averse that his recovery became hopeless. Being under the necessity of leaving home Dr Cartwright Avent to see his patient, and finding him very loav, began to try to reconcile his parents to losing him. While I Avas in conversation on this distressing subject Avith his mother,” says Dr CartAvright in his memories, “ I observed in the corner of the room a small tub of Avort Avorking. The sight brought to ray recollection an experiment I had soraeAvhere met with, of a piece of putrid meat being made SAveet by being suspended over a tub of Avort in the act of fermentation. The idea flashed into my mind that the yeast might correct the putrid nature of the disease, and I instantly gave him tA\ r o large tablespoonfuls.” Leaving dirctions to repeat the dose if it Avas found to do good Dr CartAvright Avent aAvay, and Avhen after some days he returned home, to his surprise lie learned that the boy had quite recovered. He Avent to see him and it Avas the boy himself avlio opened the door. Wr CartAvright tells of tAvo other cases he treated Avith yeast Avith almost miraculous results, both being in the last stages of the disease, and both recovering Avith extraordinary rapidity. Noav this happened over 100 years ago, it was published in Dr

Cartwright’s memories and it has been copied into other books. It is strange that after all this time the medical profession has only heard of it through a brewer who was apparently endeavoring to force them to accept it. It does not do much credit to the profession.