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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 119, 20 May 1874, Page 2

The writer of " Passing notes" in the Otago Daily Times, says : — The Queen's Govornment must be carried od, and so, I suppose, must the Supertendent's. Yet the difficulty of framing ao Executive in tho most prosperous times might well read us all a lesson. There is something instructive in it. Why should there have been something like a forlnight last year, and some little time this, because men cannot be got together to govern the country. "I am unwilling to be made a bishop" will soon be out of date compared with "I am unwilling to be maie a member

of the Executive." If these things happen in the green tree, when the sap is running freely — when the coffers are full, and the only difficulty is tbe best disposition of the funds—what will happen in the dry, ie., when the land is all sold and the money all spent; when the Supplementary Estimates and their allocation will no longer be a source of trouble, because nobody expected a shilling out of them, and ihey ore clearly understood to bo only a complimentary form of words for the purpose of soothing angry constituents? Is it because we have no leading men — men who command the confidence aod respect of all sections — not to call them parties— in the House? Is it because everybody is too thin-skinned aod doesn't like being abused by somebody? Is it beciuse our best men are too hard up and cannot afford the time for publio works? or is it because they are too well cff and are bent upon making hay whilo the sun shines? Is it because they foresee a time of inextricable difficulty and do not wish to be implicated? or is it because they think the country so prosperous as not to need their help? Why is it there is a difficulty? Echo answers, Why?