The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1887. THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1542, 26 April 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1887. THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

Parliament reassembles after a quiel recess —a wonderfully quiet recess, al things considered. The people are poor, and poverty has made thenpatient. There are sweet uses ir adversity. Quite recently, it is true, we have had a deluge of speeches from members, but there has been, little ir them, and the meetings have been dull and rather uninteresting. There has been little or no " heckling," and the .village Hampdcnß, who generally like to air their politics at the expense ol .their representatives, have been conspicuous by their absence. We daresay all this quietness, however, is but " the torrent's smoothness ere it dash below ' into the House and perturbed discussions on Representation and Finance. During the session speech will be plentiful enough—it always is so; ii may, on occasion, be angry, and possibly abortive. Mr F. H. Fraser, the new member for Te Aro, an estimable man, but a perfect doctrinain m politics, will not certainly throw much light on the situation m moving the Address-in-Reply; Mr Jones, his seconder, with more experience, may probably be more practical. They will, at all events, set loose the flood-gates of a stream oi talk upon wide and various objects. No end can be served by attempting to confine it within any prescribed limits; impromptu debates will arise, and it is desirable they should arise, on all sorts of subjects requiring ventilation and study \ and we may as well reconcile ourselves to a session very much like other sessions. Of course, the Unexpected may happen, but it is not likely. The Unexpected will come with the general election, and we are content to wait. The Representation Bill will, no doubt, be taken de die m diem, and the Financial Statement will be made the rallying cry for the Opposition. When any public business fails to give satisfaction, there is always a tendency to hang somebody, by way of relieving the superabundant vexation, and Sir Julius Yogel is the victim selected at this juncture. We daresay he will escape the extreme sentence, but the finance of the colony demands wise and careful consideration. Looking at the positiod of the Gavernment, generally, its best friends must see that it is not so strong as it was or so strong as a Government having difficult work to do should be. It is, however, safe for the session, and its fate seems to be very much that of all Governments alike. Its members came into power on a wave of hopefulness, to which the depressed circumstanpes of tjie colony has denied fruition, Hence a measure of disappointment even among supporters. Resides, the gratitude of politicians is far m.ore readily kept alive by a sense of favors to come than of favors already enjoyed. Every Government has crowds of fpen having personal aims or ambitions (not necessarily sordid aims or ambitions) and no Government is able to gratify more than a feW of these. The few are pleased, but soon get silent jf pot indifferent; the many, who have been necessarily disappointed—who have not got something or other they wished for, arc dissatisfied, and take means to express their dissatisfaction. And thus the unrest begins and grows by whas jt feeds upon, until we find friends g'oodhumouredly acknowledging that the Government has been long enough m o/iftce, and that the country would be better of a change-~riot: a pfyange of policy but a change of men. $ucb is political life, and such seems to be a j pretty general feeling at the commencement of this Parliamentary session. " Rough on Rats."—Clears out rate, mice roaohes, Hies, ants, bed bhgß, beetles, intfeeita, skunks,jaokrabbits, sparrows, goph ..At ohemists and druggists. t "Buoho-Paiba."—Quiok, complete oure, all annoying kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases. At chemists and druggists. Kemp* thorne, oftW Wd Co>> Ageotß, Obriatoburoli