The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1886. THE IMPENDING DISSOLUTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1617, 25 January 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1886. THE IMPENDING DISSOLUTION.

The Wellington Post see,ms- to. I feel strong convictions on the subject that an early dissolution is the only solution of the existing political incongruities and impending ddniplicatipns. Our contemporary de,precates the passing of encominms on the calibre of the present House of Representatives, which, judged b.y it's, works, that is legislation, tone of debates, transaction of public business &c. it maintains suffers m comparison with most of its. predecessors. It deprecates the narrow, local feeling So prominently m the ascendant during the last two sessions of Parliament, m which so little really useful work was accomplished. It thinks that many of the more objectionable features of the present House might be eliminated by the process of a general election.' It apprehends a renewal '--of the useless' recrimination and undignified squabbling characteristic of last session. It continues: — It is quite hopeless .ttf| expict "any: ' got)d results from a prolongation of the existence of the present Parliament, and wei can see no use whatever "m the at- 1 tempt to carry on the work of the country m ' another session. The waste of time and money . which would beth us caused would be very^ greilt. ' An6ther sessibrij, eVeh'if it only lasted a month— and no reasonable man could expect it to last much longer— would cost at. least ofc?aO,000. There woujd be,abso- : . lutely no return fo,r this expenditure. If the present Parliament were dissolved, say m March, the new Pkrliament might assemble m jMay ,'or June, and have ample time before it for.jthe careful, and prbper consideration of the many important questions which demand attention. An appeal to the country on a distinct policy could scarcely fail to ensure to some leader a following of sufficient numbers 7 to establish i maintain jhj.po.wer fairly Js|roiig Government. The present House has become politically, demoralised. Most of its members have shaken | off all bonds of party allegiance ; it, | is little more than an assembrage^f ; free lances and small bodies of local, freebooters. The Government can neither lead nor control the House, and there is no one else able to do so. The country must suffer from: the continuance of such a state of things, and there is but one way of fending the 1 difficulty. That is by a dissolution, and the sooner a dissolution takes place the better it'wiil be for the country.