The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1892.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 20, 4 August 1892, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1892.

Thb fact that Sir George Grey has arrived in Wellington to take up his Parliamentary duties appears to have created quite a flutter in the Minis- . terial dove cot. Immediately on his taking up his old quarters in the Parliamentary building, the Hon Mr Seddon waited on the member for Newtown, and we are told he had a long and pleasant interview. Of course the object of the Hon Mr Seddon was to persuade, if possible, Sir George, to lay bare his plans for the future, and at the same time endeavour to placate one whose antipathy to the Premier is now historical. Whether Mr Seddon i succeeded in either of these objects remains to be seen. Our contempor ary the Post, dealing with the advent jof Sir George Grey, remarks :— " His i opportunity will come when Ministers introduce the Land and Income Tax Bill. Then Sir George Grey will declare the true Liberal faith, and show what a mockery and a delusion is the faith propounded and embodied in the i Ministerial policy. It is, we believe I practically certain that he will strenuously object to the taxation of improvements, and will on this point join issue with the Government. What the result of his doing so may be, none can tell. Without the tax objected to the financial proposals will fall to pieces like a pack of cards. Have the professedly Liberal members backbone enough to support Sir George Grey in maintaining a great principle, I or will they follow Ministers in the sacrifice of principle to a miserable expediency ? That is an all-important question, to which time alone can supply an answer. Sir George Grey will, we hope, oppose any attempt at evasion, and will put the statesmanship of the Ministry to the test, to see if it be equal to devising something which may supply the place of the tax on improvements, if Sir George Grey's objection to it prevails. It will be interesting to watch the contest and the result."