Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JULY 8, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1369, 8 July 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JULY 8, 1872.

In a very few days ministers will be brought face to face with the representatives of the people in the General Assembly, and however skilful Mr Vogei niay have hitherto proveij in adapting his policy to attendant circumstances, we confess that we cannot see any possibility of ministers appearing in Parliament with any prospect of being able to afford a satisfactory account of their stewardship since they last dismissed the Parliament from its duties. Ministern may no doubt point to a good deal that they have tried to do; but, unfortunately, well-meant efforts only are riot sulficient to satisfy any but such as may be already resolved on adhering to them. The)' can show that they have put the Colony to a good deal of expense by much travelling about—the Governor and Native Minister with in the Colon)-, and Mr Vogel beyond its boundaries—but whether within or without, the absence of any definite measure of success attendant on their doings, is alike painfully apparent. MU Excellency and the Native. Minister

have obviously failed to accomplish the object of their mission to the headquarters} of rebeldom, having, doubtless much to iheir t ;disgust, found the chief of the rebels rde|erniined on holding himself majesiapalry afbbf from all the temptations they could offer him, and persisting toJheJast in refusing ,to ..do himself the honor of a j)erspnal interview with the representative of' her Britannic Majesty. Native "aSair«,~ then, remain without much, if, indeed, any, improvement since last session. The Oaiifornian mail service, that masterpiece of, the Vogel Government, is near its collapse. No person supposes for a moment that the contractors can

carry it on without tlie'expected subsidy from the Tjnited States Government, or that this Colony can do so, even if the contracters were able to fulfil their agreement, without the aid p£ pome of the neighboring colonies. Both parties, then, to the contract, however much it may be to their regret, will be forced to permit it to break down from sheer incapacity to carry it on. The domestic affairs of the Colony are not in any more satisfactory condition. A large portion of the giant loan has been raised and spent merely in preliminaries, and though the time has arrived in which Mr Vogel promised to show a handsome return from some of the public works which were to have been finished, acarce any of them have passed their merest initiatory stage, and no return from them can be expected for years to come. Meantime, the estimated cost of their construction has increased some 30 per cent., and the interest of the borrowed money has to be extracted from the pockets of the people by additional taxation. Under such a state of things it is not to be wondered at if ministers are losing their old supporters, nor that the prospect of a successful opposition to their policy is day by day becoming more clear. Some thirty names are aheady given as the adherents of a new party under the leadership of Mr Stafford, who will be supported by Mr Eitzherbert, the Superintendent of Wellington—himself but recently an ardent admirer of the present ministry. The chances are, therefore, that the first few days of the coming session will be the last of the"reign of the ministry under the leadership of Mr Vogel.