THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1872.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1308, 8 October 1872, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1872.

According to the information which we received from Wellington yesterday afternoon, the Governor had declined to comply with Mr Stafford's suggestion that the House of Representatives should be dissolved. That information has since been confirmed by our ordinary Press telegrams, and there is, therefore, reason to suppose that it is correct. Deprived of the satisfaction of obtaining a dissolution, the Ministry will jiuiv lunuicp vim uiwi>i>«.i . w — « — «.ii_ ing the example of their predecessors by resigning their offices, or of adopting the unprecedented course of retaining office until expression is again given to the Assembly's want of confidence in their capacity to conduct the affairs of the Colony. The usual result of such a resolution as Mr Yogel was successful in carrying on Friday last is resignation, but it is a question whether the present Ministry will adopt the coune which is common and honorable under such circumstances. The suspicion is that they will prefer to hold office until they have again tried the temper of the House upon the question of Supply. Should they attempt to do so, it is to be hoped that Mr Yogel, as the leader of the Opposition, will proceed to the extremity which he would be perfectly justified in adopting— the extremity of proposing ah address to the Governor requesting him to dismiss his advisers. Between the two parties in the House there is no question requiring an appeal to the country. Both parties are agreed as to the propriety of the policy, which Mr Yogel initiated, and the present House ii as capable of making a selection of members to carry out that policy as any Assembly which might be created by an appeal to the constituencies. Should such an appeal be made, Mr Vogel's return by some one ot the constituencies of the Colony is inevitable, and the result achieved by a general election would simply be a repetition of the present position of parties. It would, we believe, much more accord with the wishes of the majority of the population of the Colony if Messrs Yogel and M'Lean were at once to resume office in association with any fresh selection from among the many competent men who are to be found in the House, and there is little doubt that the Opposition will find themselves strong enough to enforce the adaption of that course, in preference to the unwarrantable alternative of a general election.