The Feilding Star, Oboua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1897. AS OTHERS SEE US.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 137, 9 December 1897, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oboua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1897. AS OTHERS SEE US.

It is proverbial that outsiders see most of tho game. It is needless for us to remind our readers that tbe other colonies have for the last six years been watching with keen interest the remark able experimental legislation which has bceD indulged in by thn New Zealand Parliament. We uotice that the editor of the Review of Reviews, who is a ken observer as well as an impartial critic, in the last number of that popuUr magazine says:— "ln New Zealand the Seddon Government sits in office a shade less securely than of old. Ministers have adroitly weathered hitherto the storms raised over the J. G. Ward financing, the bank revelations, and tbe indiscreet —to use no harsher term — connection between the individual Ministers and companies more or less expectant of State favours. During the budget debate tbe waves of discontent ran higher, and the Government craft labored ominously. Mr Rolleston's amendment, condemning the practice ol Ministers holding positions upon such syndicates or com ponies was plainly levelled at tbe Premier and Mr John McKensie, Minister of Lauds. Mr Seddon is v ajdviser " to the Anglo-Continental Mi utu<» .Syndicate ; his colleague is on the advisors' board of the Colonial Consign, rueut and Distributing Compauy. Mr Holies ton, though <&o£ o/ficiai leader of bho Opposition, is an •oLd ,ej. Minister, and carries great weight. M&g; tiers , rallied to his Bide, and the defection <i!i four quasi supporters of the Government left tho Seddon Ministry with a majority dwindled down to a bare half dozen. A« tnJpulno of virtuous indignation in dined lie^ara Seddou and McKfmic to solemuly e&U /jut the four seceders from tbe Government (aid, but this can hard ly mend matters, tfey the Ministerial party is seamed and £a*ofQd ;n other directions. Tbe so(id*/ity of 4Ue pajt six or seven years has go©*, and yepy I probably Mr Seddon discerns the writings on the wall." It is rumoured tfrtf j the present Agent General, Mr Reeves, i* likely to be recalled to tbe colony, witfc the view of again entering into Parliamentary life, and thus patch np one of tb« "jieams and fissures," bat snch jraaMMNr tacks confirmation. At any rate it iadieatae tbfi trend of public OfKOiOfl.