THE COLONIAL MINISTRY AND ITS FRIENDS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 330, 2 July 1875, Page 3

THE COLONIAL MINISTRY AND ITS FRIENDS.

The hare with many friends had an easy time of it, and found help -and welcome 'in abundance, compared, with the Government at the-present juncture. Every opposition paper is- full ofvrebuke,; correction, and instruction, but it so happens that while the rebuke and correction are very much the same I in most cases; and do not mean, any- j thing, everyone's instruction so differs from everyone else's, that it is impossible to find out what it is wished the Government should do or should refrain from .doing. . It does not much matter. The Government, we believe, know what they are about, and even when they are told that they can. receive no reinforcement, and that they must depend upon themselves, they are not greatly troubled. They do not wish—they have not sought—any reinforcement. They are depending upon themselves, and have perfectly 1 good reasons for doing so. If the air is full of rumors aboutHhat they could, would, or should do when parliament meets, these rumors.are entirely the inventions of those who would fain be--lieve that the Government is in a state' of perplexity which exists only in .the minds of those who wish it to be so. Does it not occur to members of the Opposition and those who are backing them, that they would render.' th'eir cause better service, if they'look less care for the Government, which can take care of itself, and turned their attention more to the organisation" oftheir own ill-assorted following-or rather leading, for they seem to be very . much all head, and no body to speak of! Sir George /Grey is one leader •■ Mr. Fitzherbert is another ; Mr. Mncandrew a third; Mr. Eolleston a fourth, —a quartumvirate ; Mr. Keeves and Mr. iQreighton, if they cannot lead, will decline to follow, and we hardly know how many more may be dis-. posed to fight for their.own hands as. Hal o' -the Wynd did on the Inch at Perth. And what do they want? Sir George Grey is severely exercised, of all things in the world, about private executions, as if the Government meant to hang the half of the minority at once. Mr. Fitzherbert, we daresay, is troubled enough .about his provincial estimates , .the Council gave -him all he wanted,'but the land is not ready'to sell or likely to be, and next year there,' will be but a beggarly account and an" empty exchequer. Mr. Macandrew is too shrewd and too good natured to pull for any length of time with the two North Island Superintendents-, and Mr.*Eolleston has too many points adout him, " like qudls upon the fretful porcupine," to have much to say to them. ' .They are a collection of fortuitous atoms—not aparty,.butanOamarilla—agreed only in their desire to see the present^Government out 1 and some of thenselves' inj 'but -who 'shall-the-some be ? There's the rub. Fee;cannot get in because Fa is in .favor/of Fum,-but Fa himself has little chance because Ma;knows his little game. "If. Fummy were to take office, Bummv would get that affair of his' arranged, but Thummy is virtuous- and would kick. The Tadpoles and Japers would not agree, their discordant claims cannot be reconciled ; and definite prin-; ciple or policy .has yet to be hit upon. — c Tribune.'