The DFelding Star. SATUEDAY, MARCH 12, 1892.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 109, 12 March 1892, Page 2

The DFelding Star. SATUEDAY, MARCH 12, 1892.

The Wanganui Herald is very out spoken on the political position : — " If Lord Glasgow will not appoint enough new members to the council to enable the Government to get its measures through that chamber, it does not necessarily follow that Ministers will force matters and bring about a dissolution. They can either do so, or follow the usual English precedent and leave the matters in dispute between the two Houses to public opinion, which will not be long in bringing our New Lords to a sense of their amenity to the will of the people." Although the Herald disclaims having Ministerial authority for any of its statements relative to the Government and their policy, yet we are perfectly justified in assuring that our contemporary has better opportunities of being " posted up " then most other journals in the colony. If we may read between the lines we are safe in drawing the conclusioa that the Ministerial party dread a dissolution, and they are quite right, because although they have only been a year in power, •' and the country has not had time to judge of the legislation of the Government," yet the country has had time to learn that the present party in power do not represent the colonists, but only a section of them, and are prepared to sacrifice property holders for the special advantage of their friends, m order that they may remain in possession of the control of the Treasury. The socialistic threat contained in the phrase—" will not be long in bringing our New Zealand Lords to a sense of their amenity to the will of the people"— comes with very bad grace from a paper so closely connected with the head of the Government. However, we agree with the Herald that what tbe country wants is political rest and not turmoil — more work and less wrangling. If members would go to their parliamentary duties imbued with this idea and determined to work for the good of the country, and leave off bickering and wasting time in meaningless speeches, some good would be speedily done, and the country saved the great expense of protracted sessions and abortive attempts at useful legislation. Many thoughtful men in these colonies have arrived at the conclusion that it will, before many decades, be their duty to inaugurate a system of missions for tbe civilisation of certain portions of savage Europe. The experience gained in introducing the liberal arts and sciences among the islanders in the Pacific ocean should prove of inestimable value when the time comes for them to extend their sphere of usefulness to tho Mediterranean Sea and the savages who inhabit the numerous islands and archipelegos therein. Many colonists will have read that these islands were discovered several, in fact, very many years ago, and occasional books of greater or less merit were written about the habits, morals, and customs of their inhabitants, but no real attempt was ever made towards their civilisation. It is, however, as the poet said, never too late to mend, and we sincerely trust that the more liberal and enlightened Australasian colonists will take the matter in hand and put a stop to the abominable outrages and crimes so common anaon<? those benighted peoples. These remarks have been caused by reading the telegram from Athens, describing the murder of a wedding party, for mere amusement.