THE DEADLOCK.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 386, 26 August 1884, Page 2

THE DEADLOCK.

It seems pretty certain from telegrams received from Wellington last er#njng that Sir Gteo. GrBBY will not be success* ful in forming a stable Ministry. Ho could no doubt find any number of hangers-on who would consent to take office at great personal sacrifice, but fatuous as the great tribune is, he is not fatuous enough to disregard the summary fato of the Stout-Vogel combination, and will not risk the reputation as a leader whicfe he thinks clings to him. He will probably fflfavm the House to-day that he h&B EeJiuvji^sJhftd jbhe task which the .Grorernoe has sateW^tjl. fy hjm, and the question then arisgss; Whajt j^jy to be doneP Is. the country t® fee j^t j^» t/^e 'expense and delay of another geue^kl^yp- ] tion because members hare suddenly woie ;.up Lq the fact that their principles are iparamOiiWb.P It is understood that Mr ''Obhond wiiiiw)o^4ertakethe formation :of a Government unless fc^f well-known views upon the property are acceded to, ; This will not be agreed \tofaj .the present House. Looking round the ben@h#s>f there is not a single leader who has a posgJLfojJjtv of forming a eoin'manding majority, ' Thare must be a coalition. A dissolution would npj; pnly be useless, but it would be criminal, and w$ are sure His Excellency would not granfc it, JJ© would be only justified in granting an appgflj tQ the country so soon if ter a general eioctipn. if there some vital question to be settlpd. As. our correspondent says, it is only a question of men, and it would be pusillanimous in the House to relegate itu duty in the matter to tho poftstituencies, There would after all bo no greaifc sitpisteh of conscience in a coalition yrbv?h ahonlA imlnde Major Atkinson 3ir J. Yomh and Mv Osmond. They jeould form a phalanx wMch would present an irnpregua.bU? fi'O»t to the strongest assault.