THE PREMIER AT INVERCARGILL.

Kumara Times, Issue 461, 19 March 1878, Page 2

THE PREMIER AT INVERCARGILL.

The Otago Daily Times makes the following sensible remarks :—We observe that the Press Agency at Invercargill has not yet recovered from the shock received from the vote of confidence in the Ministry passed unanimously by the people of that place in public meeting assembled. At all events, the Agency which supplies all the papers of the Colony with " impartial" information has failed to notify the fact. Except those journals which, like our owp, may have had information from " own correspondents," the newspapers throughout the length and breadth of the land have left their readers to surmise that in one place at least Ministerial triumphs have received a check. Our.correspondenfc told us that' '" atthe close of the meeting a vote of confidence in the Grey Ministry was ''carried without a dissentient, and amid immense applause." According to the last we: heard from the-Press Agency, the Premier "is still speaking," and probably when he shall have finished, or. the agent awakes fiom his torpor, we may hear the rest. A vote of confidence more or less is not of very particular moment, and he must be a very greedy pai tisan that would irrudge the opposition scoring. one. But as the Press Agency had been at the trouble of assuring us and the whole Colony that there would be no demonstration whatever in that town, and that Sir George .Grey landed from the train " with his hat in his han.l," it might have informed the Colony whether he ha«i put it on his head again, 01;. at least wether he' has finished speaking, even if it overlooked the little circumstance of a vote of confidence " amid loud applause."