MR HISLOP AND THE MINISTRY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2244, 4 October 1889, Page 2

MR HISLOP AND THE MINISTRY

(Otago Dally Timea.") We shall b * ou iouu to eea If the Hlalop resignation faroe will be played out to }he end by the resdmlsslon of Mr Hlalop to the Cabinet m tho ahanoter.of aa Injured innocent. If It Is not, we saspeo; that the reason will ba Mr Hlslop'a own refus >1 to embarrass his oolleognes* rnth^r 'bin, the Premier's preference of public duty to private friendship If It bad not been for the position wbioh the late Colonial Seoretary took Dp at Oamaru, that his re.eleotlon was to be regarded as tha endorsement of his oonduot m ti general features, there would heve been no objection to his reinstate ment ; but under present oircum* stanoes it would mean that the Government took Mr Hislop's view of the position. No donbt the Ministry, reinforced by Oaptaia Russell, woo id be | strong enough to make the House swallow Mr Hislop's reinstatement, but it I would nevertheless affect the Ministry injuriously, as a direot defianoe of the feeling of the House • and of the oountry, for that matter. If Mr Hlslop had owned to having made a mistake, everyone would have been glad to forget the matter, and to see him baok m the , Government. But he himself has made this impossible.