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See also:BALLANCE, See also:JOHN (1839-1893) , New See also:Zealand statesman, eldest son of See also:Samuel Ballance, See also:farmer, of Glenavy, See also:Antrim, See also:Ulster, was See also:born on the 27th of See also:March 1839. He was educated at a See also:national school, and, on leaving, was apprenticed to an ironmonger at See also:Belfast. He became a clerk in a wholesale ironmonger's See also:house in See also:Birmingham, and migrated to New Zealand, intending to start in business there as a small jeweller. After settling at See also:Wanganui, however, he took an opportunity, soon offered, of See also:founding a newspaper, the Wanganui See also:Herald, of which he became editor and remained See also:chief owner for the See also:rest of his See also:life. During the fighting with the See also:Maori chief Titokowaru, in '867, Ballance was concerned in the raising of a See also:troop of volunteer See also:horse, in which he received a ' See also:commission. Of this he was deprived owing to the See also:appearance in his newspaper of articles criticizing the management of the See also:campaign. He had, however, behaved well in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, and, in spite of his dismissal, was awarded the New Zealand See also:war See also:medal. He entered the See also:colony's See also:parliament in 1875 and, with one See also:interval (1881-1884), sat there till his See also:death. Ballance was a member of three ministries, that of See also:Sir See also:George See also:Grey (1877-1879); that of Sir See also:Robert Stout (1884-1887); and that of which he himself was premier (1891-1893). His See also:alliance with Grey ended with a notorious and very painful See also:quarrel. In the Stout See also:government his portfolios were those of lands and native affairs; but it was at the See also:treasury that his prudent and successful See also:finance made the chief See also:mark. As native See also:minister his policy was pacific and humane, and in his last years he contrived to adjust equitably certain See also:long-See also:standing difficulties See also:relating to reserved lands on the See also:west See also:coast of the See also:North See also:Island. He was resolutely opposed to the See also:sale of See also:crown lands for See also:cash, and advocated with effect their disposal by perpetual See also:lease. His See also:system of See also:state-aided " See also:village settlements," by which small farms were allotted to peasants holding by lease from the crown, and See also:money See also:- LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")
lent them to make a beginning of See also:building and cultivation, has been on the whole successful. To Ballance, also, was due the See also:law reducing the life-See also:tenure of legislative councillors
to one of seven years. He was actively concerned in the advocacy of woman See also:suffrage. But his best known achievement was the See also:imposition, in 1891, of the progressive See also:land-tax and progressive income-tax still levied in the colony. As premier he brought together the strong experimental and progressive party which long held See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in New Zealand. In office he showed debating See also:power, constructive skill and tact in managing men; but in 1893, at the height of his success and popularity, he died at See also:Wellington of an intestinal disease after a severe surgical operation. Quiet and unassuming in manner, Ballance, who was a well-read See also:man, always seemed fonder of his books and his See also:chess-See also:board than of public bustle; yet his loss to New Zealand See also:political life was See also:great. A statue was erected to his memory in front of Parliament House, Wellington. (W. P.
End of Article: BALLANCE, JOHN (1839-1893)
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