A COLONIAL AT HOME.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1664, 10 February 1886, Page 2

A COLONIAL AT HOME.

M> G Grove, a Nelson r^ident, mo W on a visit to the Old Country, is *mpplyin<» the *M»il* with chatty Intr ;s it English atl iirs. Comparing :■•■{•• ..-. e !^:':io:i meetings at Binning* ! i i ii vrii !.h >* in the same city forty . • -i i : ». he says : " A dottier change I i■ ■ ,vis "^iter-dressed and better- ;> (.- I j>i't> ; )l»} who composed the -i i 'r». Ti- Ma< k;nard riernent - i I -one. I could not realise it to • .treat political meeting iv Birni • mi ;it ill. It seined too civil. 'i- 1 iL ),'of!J9i but then this ig owing I ><> i!i<- change that hits chop over the ' t»»M, a>nl, 1 i».lieve I may say, over ; E i,'!a:id— a chinge for the tatter. In the streets, a> the theatres, on the • rii wivs and pUces of amusement and 1 public resort, this greit and good e!nns;f is in ist noticeable." vfr Br-^ht. made i crushing speech (at Bii 1 ni .gliam) against the Tories, at tra :t«-risiiig iheir political history as a history <> ' the most humiliating sii; renders." an I Mr D»l" the eminent Nonconformist minister, deplored the fa t that " the clergy of Birmingham hid j 'i'ied with the Bordesley p'lbli* c:vi> to oust Mr VV. Bv'»adharst,'" oat he added that he " hoped aud halinveJ rh» e'eetors would rcse.nt thin by returning Mr B oailhurpt with a triumphant !h «]<•» ity, aifd thereby frustrate the unholy alliance." He concludes bis lett» r thus : — * I am sorry to say I notice in Binui .igham a sad fal ing off fro n the trade principles, and * tend-stcy Hiito'ii* tlie people in a.i rl »>SiS to relr the present depression in tale to foreigners being aide to hi- nl their manufactures into Eigla 1 1 free fon any luties whatever, Tie Tories are unking the most of 1 1 is fe.liu'. axd al&) of the bad times, a nt tit" S'iid«ii. »*' .. ti» gain votes on their *i le, ml Ishal not be at all surprised at r-e Liber* * having a much haidefi;ltt than thoy anticipated. If a n-actio i in fa"or of Protection doos -c ii. sit »p >ears to <>c doing, then New Zeal i d mutton and hops, and Aui' ic«n l» ■ f Mid A >ur will bo tax«d. Of o ,<■ thijr I am qiite certain, ant th-i? is fli 1 p o )Ih are turning against F.fetride and in favor of what tb^y call Fairtmd" — that fa, taiin,' tie goods f.- on all ountrieg which impose a tax on English goods"