THE Manawatu Times; SATURDAY, OCT. 18, 1879. ILLEGALLY IN POSSESION.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 84, 18 October 1879, Page 2

THE Manawatu Times;

SATURDAY, OCT. 18, 1879. ILLEGALLY IN POSSESION.

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If ev«*r there was " a storm in.a teacup " it was m" the excitamerit raised by ih'o. ATi ni'sterial organs over the frightful : corruption - and jobbery Which the hon. the Treasurer was to exnose during Jvis FiuaneiaL Statement. The hour of impeachment has come and 'passed; and the horrors x are still Jto hrv revealed, while the* review, of the financial positia^of jthe colony will remain as Wie most lame and i myqtent ever made by one preferrinir a/claim to' be a statesman Ry -ry at of the Still-bora Ministry, from the first moment of its inception to the present has i>een a violation of honor: and a. disregard of all Constitutional precedent. In the, first place the Premier was allowed to resijrn his seat m the Upper House, and-that resignation ..wasfaccepted by-His *!H)xc©!lency without it receiving the sanction -of his responsible advisers ; secondly ;•. a., most fla^ grant insult was offered to the contitue'icy of Eden by the calling of Mr. Whittaker to iheTJpper House, after he had been; contemptuously, the Haet, Ml nist.ry, instead- of'^e-cdn's-ruVtiri^ a" lV Ca.bine l t, "^alaF" their Chief had " undertaken to do, were compelled to ,come. to the House 1 wi th ; th ree : of ; the Pi >r tf bli os vai-an t : and .fourthly,-, now that the majority of the tnembprs desire their expujsi'onrfrqm pflStje/ they defy all const itntioMa] "precedent, and point blank rofuse. to take up-.tho ja;auntler ■which has b.een hurled at them. ; If ih e < ) p p6«i ti on -w ere _ actu ated >by ,; a faoti;)us dogjedness, arid merely desired to : renossess thpmselresi. of th e T reas 1 1 r v B en ch es , Mess rs . H a.ll > and Co. \y< uld have no h"sitation m accenHVjor the erage of battle, well icnqAvinsr thaj; if such.were the case, their defeat would be most signal. B'tt \fr. Macaxduevv;, as well as othe,ns of his party, have most disiinotly asserted that if the Ministry will -only submit themselves to a vote of .the Hpiise, if :tbejn\aiority be iii favor of their oonti nuance, from t^at moTnent the Liberals will bo with then hfart and soul m forwardini? the business of the country. Hiat, howver, does not suit the book of th« ?reat shark s, an d as "*po«spssioTi is ni'ie points of the Hw.'*' notAvi^hstanding its . illegality,, ■t'l.ey are n teruiiued to stio'r to it at all ha^irds. It is well known- to both ; sides of the; House that; the" only reason the (^rey Ministry resiffned was m order that another Tjiheral Ministry could be reconstructed with a change of leaders. While Sir GwoTiGWi; (sutst was divesting himself of his general's uniform, t.be IHon; ,"\lr. HvT/t, forestalled Mr M l and he \s now, like the jay, ,a'bqut— -rnqt m borrowed, but m wtoleir;' plumage. The r>olicy now being enacted is a .repetition' of the doff m the mansier, for the Premier must well know that he has not sufficient following to coitit tnand a majority, and*conßequently he has resorted to th^.t last r.pspr.t, of .the stfijbhorn— a dead lock. -The nrftmisfd rlisc.loßures m the Native Ofnceis merely a shallow ruse to' stick to placo: and pay for a few days lonsjer ; or why : not accept the su2f£f»st'qn of Mf. Moss, and make th> A Tative the test point of ATr. Maovndtiew's 'notion. If there has been such frightful- cnrnuntion m Mr, Srkiehan's Department as to forpver preclude the .Liberals ''-from having charge of it, whnt time soopn-'rtune at which to i.ilie 'i division as upon tlie < j venina: when al 1 ifs^ the uii'ids qf the House. The Minrs*erial paper, ov^r a week aa;o, published the most alaßmin<? rumors of th-i:(lisclo;Hnrf%to l>,eymade, and certainly ... snfticient time has since claused fo ; have, allowed 'of a thorough. sifting and sheeting home of the charges, if they ever had any Pxißten\;e, However, hotwithatand\mr a t it t^ lne^ cqnteuiinib ; l v ti

'sliufQliig of which the Ministry are &\ for jsont guilty, it will be all to no purpose, as the new Leader of the Opposition has determined to make the enemy turn to bay, when their political life will be a very short one.