The Star. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1888. Mistaken Kindness.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6307, 3 August 1888, Page 2

The Star. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1888. Mistaken Kindness.

Wheee are the Youag New Zealanders ? The special function, of that vigorous, if apparently mythical^jonibinauon^ talezit Wall comers of the House, waa to-watch Harbour Boards and their doings. That at least we -understood was held to be the prmoipaleentiment that united the rather hostile fractions of thsir association If bo, it is high tim» they pub oa their war-paint and their feathers, sharpened tlie rnsfcy, trusty Thornae-axe] and held a council of the Sachems to Bee if the hour for scalping has not arrived. The doings of the TaranaH Harbour Boarda apar net on to 'metaphor. Waitara may be all innocent, as Mr Marchant believes, and I>r Newman aU wrong, as he says ; the Uew Plymouth venture may be splendid j the -wreck of the Hawea may have zut more connection with the weak points of the scheme than Tenfcerden Steeple with Goodwin Sanda— but all the came the Young Mew Zealand Party might lookintotheae and other kindred-matters. "Why should the Colony step in and pay for the New Plymouth Haibonr Board? The Premier, who has got a little Billon the eubjecfc (a rery little innocent which will not be found among the slaughtered), wiahes'the-worldto believe that the assistance is-merely temporary, and by way of a loan, a mere matter of form certain to be followed by the complete payment out of tha<ample local resources of all the local debts. Tea; it looks very well that there «re to- be advances against the land Trevenne of Taranaki. But if the land revenue is not destined to come in? 3S» mortgaging of the land revenue is a vary old device, but the times are getting- too -new for it every day. We should like to believe that New "Plymouth can rely on her land revenue. Indeed,itis-afact that the deferred pay. mentand perpetual lease settlers cleared last year not less than JOOO acres o£ bash, greasy, rank, close, and difficult— a fact which promises well for the future of settlement in the Taranaki Province, and therefore for the eventual soundness of tite land revenue. Moreover,, if ifc.ia at-all poes&lB, by all xncaas let TO^preveai^ failure at £he appointed time ©f interest due by any local governing body. Thew ia every reason for assisting the local bodies to keep up their credit, because their credit is- ourown. Bat that is the strongest season for preventing local bodies from borrowing any more money. Our motto, unhappily, haa to be "Eigour to the would-be borrower j tenderness4x> the indebted. 5 *