POLITICAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 68, 19 August 1885, Page 2

POLITICAL NEWS.

(Correspondent of New Zealand Titles.) The Herald, referring to thVpoliUca^ situation and the duty or the Opposition, says :— " The -'Opposition will naive nochoice but to obey tlje ejugenciet of their first consideration— that ; a great majorityof the colonists expect them to take th© administration of 'Jhe government out of the hands of men who.are manoeuvring to commit .the Colony!- '^obligations which must necessarily ,increa^e'taxation, already too o'ppressiyei and^eyerylhing which will i^ndto the gaining}ot that end they reckon oh being); caref\ipy: attended to. ShoiUd this object „be|■ ^shieved, a ' neutral Cabinet coiddvgawlyVbe formed | to attend to^ mattfrra^p^. -administration, the permanent arrangeirientfif being alI lowed to stand ovjer next session. I This would admit, of- aj££arsies considering leisurely; during, tjie.:tecefes whether, m view of the differenfcyintferests of the two Islands,.it would.nbt.ije' better after all to agree withiir;CertainV_limits to their financial and legislative distinctness*. We can no longer close our eyes to the fact that, no matter what. Ministry may be m power, this is the "question of the future. The Federation of which ;New Zealand is yet destined to be the head must begin m New Zealand itself ; and unconsciously on the part of those taking- part m them, the proceedings both of last session and 'of the present one have all been, tending to bring about this result."

(Correspondent of Wanganni Herald.) Wellington, Tuesday. The threatened vote of no-fidence did* nut come of as expected, and the larg* crowds that- flocked to the galleries were treated to a dry discussion about-esti-mates instead of a brilliant debate, ont the general shortcomings of "the worst Ministry that the , colony had. ever been saddled with," . to use' the Mafor's language. Various reasons were. assigned m the lobbies for not bringing it : for.ward. By one section of the opposition it was asserted that Yogel had offered to resign m order to relieve his colleagues of responsibility for .his sayings and doings, and if his resignation was accepted they coiUdtbjen support the Ministry. By another section it. was asserted that poor Montgomery who has always to act the part of ''thepatnot^o .monkey .■without getting a share of th« chestnuts, had ""deferred . bringing down the vote- at the request of old friends, like Macandrew.