Special to the Star.) Wellington, July ut. Responding to the toast of "The 1 legislature" at the witerU'.nment givpn to visiting Pressmen by the proprietors ol the Times Company on Saturaay Sir Joseph Ward said that the colony was now passing through a very important epoch of Its histoty, and our legislators were face to face with the Question of whether the colony was to he kept going ahead, and th& prosperity of the last, few years' to Le maintained or whether it was the wish of the people that wo should '■' go slow." What' he desired was that (he posi tion- should be fairly stated; that there should be no " hypocritical pleadings for economy ; on the one band, and no clamorous demands for the prosecution, of public works, such as making rorjds and railways in various districts, Sir Joseph' gave it as his. opinion- thai? it would

be a urinous tiling tor the colony ti adopt a ',' go-slow " policy at tin present juncture, because to stop 01 to curtail Hie colony's development would lead to a wave of. dcprcssioi throughout New Zealand.
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DEATH 0F MR JOHN M'LEAN.
