The Gisborne Stnadard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, Morning.
Thursday, March 19, 1891.
Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's Thy God's, and troth’s.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald coercion will be attempted to make New Zealand join the proposed Federation, True, the word ‘'coercion' 1 is not used, but the meaning ia plain. This colony has certainly got to be very careful how it acts in the matter of Federation. There is the danger of commercial reprisals on the one hand, while on the other there is the danger of the colony, if it joins the Federation, finding itself taking the rank of a parish. It would have no power in an Assembly in which it could always be overruled by other interests, while it would be crippled iq any effort to shape its own destiny. We do not want to see New Zealand made a mere dependency of colonies whose interests are so widely different in some respects. Threats are only likely to widen the breach. From a commercial point of view many considerations arise, but after all has been said we think that Sir George Grey's advice is the best—let us see the Federation first and then we shall know what we are doing. The longer the debate continued the greater were the differences of opinion shown to exist among the delegates themselves.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 584, 19 March 1891, Page 2
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240The Gisborne Stnadard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, Morning. Thursday, March 19, 1891. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 584, 19 March 1891, Page 2
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