New Zealand was one of the grandest, healthiest ond most picturesque countries on tfce lg.ce of tho earth, but it was not exactly the plow for a poor man. ■ TUB IjALJjANCE aOVEP.NHENT. But» change panjo p’pp the scene when Mr Ballanoe, with a strong liberal jjqlioy, took tho islands by storm, swept tho polls, apd sent the Conservative Party to weep on the Opposition benches. English capital pre tended to take fright at this change in politics, and the speedy rain of Now Zealand was predict#/! in lugubrious language. In deed, while smarting under defeat, many English capitalists actually went tho length ' of withdrawing their money, oat Jfp Ballanoe checkmated them in every possible way. Ho tirew open the lands of the Colony, broke up the iar* 's landed estates, stimulated tho vari ous industries, and by a masterful policy lifted New Zealand oift flf her trouble and set her on the high road of national prosperity. At his death ho was widely and deeply lamented by a grateful people, and' the work which he commenced has since gone on with vigour and without interruption. The Conservatives have never foygiven the Ballanoe patty for shifting the inoidljipc of taxation on to the shoulders of those best ai*Jo to bear it. Such an impertinent proceeding rar.ejy ffi?ets with the approval of tho moneyed classes.
