The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, July 6, 1915. THE RIGHT SPIRIT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1420, 6 July 1915, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, July 6, 1915. THE RIGHT SPIRIT.

During the short lime Parliament has been in session it has easily established a record in the progress made with public business. Not only has the Address-in-Reply been disposed of, but a Doan Bill, authorising the Minister of Finance to raise the large sum of ten millions for the purposes of the war, has passed through all its stages, and several other measures are in a fair way of being placed on the Statute Book. Thus far, an admirable spirit has prevaded the whole deliberations of Parliament, and Party feeling, if it exists at all, is kept severely under. Members of His Majesty’s Opposition are holding themselves in admirable restraint, and should the temper they are exhibiting continue, it is safe to predict an early termination of the session. But the Ministerial programme is so exclusively devoted to war measures that it would be the extreme ot unwisdom for the Opposition to pursueanyothercour.se than that it has adopted for the time being. In his references to the Prime Minister’s intimation that he was prepared to receive and consider any suggestioh for the establishment of a National Government, the Deader of the Opposition admitted that his Party was in the minority, and used the fact to back up his argument that while he was open to consider proposals for a Coalition, he was not in the position to even suggest the form that coalition should take. There are all sorts of rumours afloat, but he would be a particularly wise man who could predict, at the present juncture, what is going to happen in Parliamentary circles. The outstanding fact is that, thus far, the Opposition has pleasantly dissipated the expectations of those who anticipated it would make trouble when the House met.