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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 209, 15 September 1879, Page 2

■*feg^»tgil^i^■:--ll^-Sl^J■MJ^^■J■Jl^»se^af!:^^?«!gO■'^'^J^lJ■^l^» In commenting on the recent elections, the Post says: — The seventh Parliament of New Zealand will, we fear, never excite in the breasts of colonists the same justifiable pride which has been felt in its six predecessors. Most of the elections are now over, and it is tolerably easy to estimate the material of the new House of Representatives. It is in every respect inferior to any previous House. Stump orators have replaced statesmen, and easy tools have filled the seats of thinking and* independent men. Education, ability, and independence of character seem to have been at a discount, and easy principles combined with a voluble tongue, have proved a sure passport to the favor of Greyite constituencies. We have on previous occasions alluded to the great loss the colony has sustained in the exclusion from its counsels of Mr Whitaker. his place being filled by a creature of the Premier's. Mr Curtis, another man who has held high Ministerial and political offices with credit to himself and advantage to the colony, has also been excluded; and yesterday the electors of Christchurch capped all by rejecting Mr Richardson in favor of Mr Andrews.