The Wanganui Chronicle, AND PATEA-RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER. "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." SATURDAY, MARCH 6. 1897. A DANGEROUS SUPPORTER.

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The Wanganui Chronicle, AND PATEA-RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER. "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." SATURDAY, MARCH 6. 1897. A DANGEROUS SUPPORTER.

Mr T. B. Taylok, M.H.8., the wellknown Christchurch prohibitionißt, is reckoned among the nuirber of Government supporters iq the new. Parliament. The Opposition, we know, finds no favour in his eyes, and he has declared distinctly that he will not follow Bir Robert Stout. He is a Liberal of the Liberals — bnt he will be a> very awkward Liberal for Mr Seddon to deal with. Indeed, it would be very much better for Mr Seddon if he could drive Mr " Tom " Taylor into the Opposition camp — but the fiery member for Christchurch will decline to be driven where he does not want to go. To show how " friendly " Mr Taylor ia to the Government, it is only necessary to quote some of his remarks at the annual meeting of tho Women's Christian Temperance Union in Christchurch last week. Tbe women, in their report, had complained of the action of the Legislative Council -in reference to liquor legislation, and commenting on this, Mr Taylor said:— "lf the Ministry was as sincere in ' its opposition to ' that House as it professed to he, the Council would either have been ended or mended before this. Instead of tbat, the Ministry had just made three of the moat disgraceful appointments to that body that had ever been made. It had actnally appointed three members -to th 3 Council who had been rejected by their constituencies,, and these appointments Would make i

the possibility of temperance legis- • lation more difficult than ever." Mr Taylor will be a terrible thorn in the side of Mr Seddon. He is as determined, as persistent, and as plucky as the Premier himself— besides being a capital speaker and a born fighter.