At the Conservative dinner Mr. Stephen Cave was the "star
of the evening, and made a speech which delighted his audience, mainly because it was so untrue. Ile said the Liberals intended to substitute cauliflower-growing for flower-growing, to make everybody build cottages at £200 and let them at a shilling a. week, and to abolish Schedule D, and keep the other schedules. The Premier attributed all prosperity to Liberals, and forgot. steam, telegraphs, or Australian gold. "Is the payment of the Income-tax for the year in one sum pleasant ? We look. with alarm at the proposal to debase the currency. Are we wholly content with the Zanzibar Contract? Is the Home-Officeadmin- istration perfect? Have our cab regulations and park regulations. been eminently successful? Are our colonial affairs inspiriting? Is it satisfactory, just after paying for the Abyssinian war,.to blunder into an Ashantee war, and to be, as far as can be ascer- tained, in imminent danger of drifting into a war in Turkey ?" All this, with a smart joke or two, made a pretty fair crackling- of thorns under the pot, but there is no meat in it. What are
Tories going to de, that they should come in ?
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