The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 10

II.—Want of Unity of Policy

II.—Want of Unity of Policy.

The policy of the Weld ministry, now that it has been joined by Mr. Fitzgerald, one of the members for Canterbury Province, and who is the proprietor and editor of the Canterbury Press, cannot be mistaken.

And "Thank God it does not" would be the exclamation of ninety nine out of every hundred colonists, both in the North and South, if the question were put to them; for they recognize in these pretensions nothing less than the triumph of the attempt of the old New Zealand Company, to establish a separate authority, in fact, sovereign power in the Islands of New Zealand, in the hands of an irresponsible clique at Cook's Straits. Let us take—

* Canterbury Press, 7th October, 1864.

Ibid. 5th October, 1864.