WHY THE PREMIER DID NOT GO HOME.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1484, 16 February 1887, Page 3

WHY THE PREMIER DID NOT GO HOME.

We (Oiago Daily Tinm) are pies Bed tn !e»rn opon the Authority <;f the Premier that the rumour as to his having been •topped from gning Home by the oppovltlon of bis colleagues, and more p»r icularly of the Treasurer, ia Incorrent. Sir Robert Htont apuure" us^ th^t his colleagues we^e throughout desirous 'hat be should attend the Conference, and that Sir Julius Yogel from ihe firat bsw the Importance of the Colony being represetted by its Premier and m»d« every endeavour to facil tata his g >fng •w»y. . . . As wo understand, t 1 c Premier would have gone Home if it li d been poifible for h'm to bo bsck by the end of May, as he had at one time hoped ; bet it ultimately becnm* Apparent that he oonld not reach Wellington before the third week m June if hn wont away, and by that time, unless the opoolnp of t»ftrliam mt were { o tpo ed until early >n Jane, b» fin^mial policy of the Government would have been dealt with, and the fate of the' Mintßtry probably settled The Premier rightly recogn : sed tl^t to postpone *he opening of the ieseion until Jane would, In th<> present ci-o-imßtan ci of the Colony, have b^en urjuatifiaHe , and bis etrorp 'oyalty to his colleapufß midthlm feel tb»t he ought 10' to deprive them of the chief source of tele strength at a moment likely to be critical. We greatly regret that Sir Robert Stoat hai found it iropiesible to attend the Conference. He would certainly have played a raos* oueful and c c Utable part there. But though wo cannot agree with .hli deciiion, w»» re»peot h'> r«otives.

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