The Daily Telegraph. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1884.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4065, 1 August 1884, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1884.

TitE last Parliament was, as a whole, composed of material too bad to enable it to livo its appointed time. Its most graceful feature during its existence was the manner of its death. It recognised its inability to carry on the business of the country, and it preferred honorable suicide to a natural death after a shameless life. The dissolu-j tion that brought the third session of the eighth Parliament to a sudden termination was probably prompted quite as much by greed for a double honorarium, as by a statesmanlike conviction- that, iiwas the only thing that could be ddne. It was impossible for anyone to have foreseen that a general election -would have resulted in a better Parliament; that it has done so has justified the dissolution, and abundantly; covered the cost to the country. Commenting upon this result the Tiinaru Herald says that an unusual number of most desirable candidates came forward, and the election^

were contested with the utmost activity. The result is that wo have decidedly the best Par r liarncnt thathas been seen in New Zealand for the last twenty years.. Almost every candid date who Avas at all conspicuous for political ability, superior education, or good standing as a settler, has been preferred over an inferior opponent.; while nearly everyone who had madb himself known for obstructiveness, violence or ill-conduct of any sort, has been rejected. When immediately before the election, a hope was expressed that the electors would so use their vote aa to maintain the high traditions of the New Zealand 'Legislature, we; confess we had not the slightest expectation that our hope would be nearly so fully realised as it has been. From one end of the colony to the other, the constituencies have shown a determination on the whole to return the best men that offered themselves, which is almost exactly the reverse of what they did at the general election in 1881.. The colony is most, sincerely to be congratulated on the outcome of the political crisis, so far, and we have every confidence that, when parties settle down, the.ultimate results of the dissolution will prove to be as satisfactory as its immediate ones. •