No-Confidence

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 21, 31 July 1886, Page 2

No-Confidence

We gave our views on this subject on Thursday last, and this is what our esteemed contemporary the Wellington Post says on the same subject : — " Once more, despite bad tactics, the Government have scored a remarkable victory. The majority of 13 by which Mr G. F. Richardsox's amendment was negatived was due not so much to any unbounded confidence in, or affection for, the present occupants of the Treasury benches, as to the absolute fear and distrust of men who were pulling the Opposition strings;

and who would have reaped the spoils of office had the decision been other than it was. Sir George Grey is no longer the 'bogy ■ of the House. There was a time when his presence in it amounted to an insurance of office to the Ministry he opposed. Hiss political powerlessaess, howerer, is, now generally recognised, and Major Atkinson and Mr Eolletton have succeeded to the position he formerly occupied. Their hunger for j office is new approaching the ravenous stage, and they look .with despair at the prospect before them of continued exclusion frem the sweets of power. The House, in this faithfully representing the country, feels, however, that whatever may be the individual suffering inflicted on these gentlemen, the public welfare demands that their banishment from the Treasury benches i shall continue. We hope the Ministry will not over-estimate the true value of the vote. It was net a vote in favor «f the schedule of the Loan Bill, or of unqualified approval of the policy of the Government It was, merely a vote to keep Major Atkinson and his friends from attaining office by a side wind and under the skelter of Mr G. F. Richardson's coat tails." We go further than our contemporary because we believe the country tow confidence in the present occupants of the Treasury benches.