MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2502, 14 April 1882, Page 3

MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

WELLINGTON, April 13. The Governor arrived at seven this morning, and during the forenoon had an interview with Mr Walter Johnston and Mr Dick, touching various routine matters. Subsequently Sir Arthur Gordon visited Mr Hall at the Premier’s residence, Tinakori road, and had a long conference with him, the nature and result of which have not transpired. There is no change sa yet in the political situation, and fresh nows on the subject is not expected until Sir Georgs Grey arrives from Auckland, which will not he befoie Sunday. Public feeling hers is strongly antagonistic to the action of the Governor.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM ] AUCKLAND. April 13,

Sir George Grey has left in the Arawata for Wellington, accompanied by Mr Seymour George, M.H.R. WELLINGTON, April 13.

The Governor, accompanied by his private secretary, returned, here from Christchurch this morning. During the forenoon he had an interview with some of his late Ministers, but tho result has not transpired. His Excellency visited the Premier at his residence this sfternoon. The interview lasted upwards of an heur. It is understood that Mr Half will leave for bis heme in Canterbury in about ten days.

The “New Zealand Times 1 ” in an article discussing tho reasons which led his Excellency to send for Sir George Grey, says:— “ But, then, how are we to reconcile his knowledge with his action ? What dcos that action really mean ? It is better at times to be plain even at the risk of incurring blame, and we have no hesitation in saying that the only possible solution of the strange course which his Excellency has thought fit to take is, that he is desirous of carrying out some views which he has respecting the treatment of tho Natives, and that he calculates on having the aid of Sir George Grey and his following in tho attempt to realise them. Except on the plea of a personal dislike of the members of the late Ministry—which would bo a suicidal one—there seems to us no other ground than the above on which his action can be retisonably accounted for. Taking this view of it, we feel bound to say that if such be its raison d’etre, a more serious blunder has never been made by any Governor of this colony. If there to one feature in tho administration of the lata Ministry which, more than another, has commended itself to the colony as a whole, it is beyond doubt their Native policy. Here the people and the Parliament may be said to be of one mind. There is a feeling of unmistakable satisfaction with what has been done, with the manner in which it has been done, and with the spirit in which all Native questions were declined to be henceforth treated. And that feeling tho Queen’s Representative may trifle with only at his peril. Tho Governor may as well think to stem the flow of the tide as to reverse that policy, or to prevent the further execution of the reforms which that policy has inaugurated. And we warn him that if, with any such object in view, he has, to the uncalled-for disparage ment of his late advisers, and to It*. serious derangement of the whole busings of the country, resorted to the unusual course of taking counsel with one who has no constitutional status us an adviser, he is committing himself to a position which will meet with all but universal condemnation both in the colony and in England.”