Author's Preface to his Readers.

The Author presents his compliments to all distinguished persons and others, and urges that he was apprenticed to Politics, having served a five years' indenture in the London Stock Exchange, the grandest theatre of political knowledge and discussion known in the world of economy; also, that he was then passed by the Committee of the House as a fit and proper person to deal, as a Broker, with the Funds of every nation in the world, in every Railway, Canal, or Dock Stock, and in shares of all the good and bad schemes that have blessed or cursed the humans who live on this wee ball, known as the sun's fourth planet, Earth.

The Stock Exchange is the place where money is raised. When the loans are bad or indifferent they are sometimes raised elsewhere, through Jew Brokers. Now that the Government of New Zealand were obliged to do this, and were then obliged to get a temporary overdraft from two Banks, also to mortgage the last reserve of the nation (£800,000 Imperial guarantee)—all this is a fact that speaks for itself, that shows that the London Stock Exchange, which lives by money-lending, cannot take your securities, but has forced the Ministers to go and withdraw from trade two millions, the loss of which is felt in every little corner of New Zealand, and unless remedied, will be the forerunner of a crisis.

These reasons, and also the dulc'et decor 'm'est pro patriâ mori principle, iuduced me to try and help you to pull out the skeleton in the Treasury, and to bury it by proper Finance.

J. W. T.