A Critical Position

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 23, 5 August 1886, Page 2

A Critical Position

To show the feeling in Wellington aa jto tie state 6f J parties in the House k.e, quote the following from the Post :-r-" Ministers should now strain every nerve to; bring this, j session to an early, i close; : iEver.ything: that is: not urgently necessary should be abandoned, for the House is getting into a nasty temper, and if they cannot send members home within the next, ten jdays their jeatß on the' Treasury Benches will not be worth a fortnight's ipurchase. There has been such a iwant «f tact displayed within the last 'week or two, such almost unpardonjable bungling, culminating in Friday jnight's defeat, that even the * best ■friends of the Ministry find it difficult :te say anything in defence of their 1 I recent actions, while ' the waverers Ishow a. growing disposition to , goj iopenly over to the other side: l " The' recent division list is full of warhmg, and it only wants another such divi- I sion to lead to a crisis even at this

late period of the session. No one is particularly anxious to bring such an event about, and if Ministers will confine themselves now to completing absolutely necessary work, and obtainBubplies, they will, be safe, and not otherwise." The dissensions in the Oa,i3iixetijV; jrhiqh are'vßaid;to prevail, will not add to the safety of Ijhe ' -':.;. <<^;, .',;., r,.,..^: :V-;