RECIPROCITY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8517, 8 April 1895, Page 2

RECIPROCITY.

A Bitter Feeling Over the Trea 1

with New Zealand.

(By Elootrio Telegraph— Copyright.) (Per United Press Association.) Mbeboitbhb, April 8. The Age says the bitter epistolary war, which has arisen between the Premiers of Victoria aod South Australia over the New Zealand treaty, is certainly not of a character to re-eifcablißh friendly relations between Victoria and South Australia. It comiders the Premier of this colony hai had great provocation for his warm reply to Premier Kingston's outbreak of wild, inconsequential, undiplomatic wrath, wherein he took opportunity to let loose the whole budget of forty years' grievances, but at the same time the Premier of Viotoria should remember the proverb about answering a certain clais of people according to their folly. The ArgUß says there is a good deal of empty pretence in the federal spirit displayed in the letters which have passed between Mr Turner and Mr Kingston over the New Zealand-South Austtshan reciprocal | treaty. It is simply federation made farcical, as t h e positions of both Premiers are indefensible, and is not statesmanship, but petty schoolboy warfare. Mr Kingston is entitled to enter into suoh treaty pending federation, but he i« playing the fool, and thnt mischievous a one. when he proposes that New Zealand and South Australia should agree to prohibit dealings between the respective people they represent and the colonies which have not been asked to treat with them. The Kingston-Ward agreement li boycotting, or the exclusive dealing of offensive and irritating kind*, and is a gross interference with the cauce of friendly and fraternal trade. Mr Kingston has only to plead selfishness in -Justification of the treaty, and can find plenty of illustratioDß to sanction it in Mr Turner's attempts at smart writing.