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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1075, 30 September 1879, Page 2

Tin: political .situation is exciting. Both parties are so evenly balanced that it is imt>!-s.-ib'.e for any one to tell which party i.-i to be vieteriotta. It is stated by Opposition pnoet'i* ti>at their p::rty numbers 44 and tiie (.{overnment party t-- iHit a .-.jiiiijieii..i [Mjiur ussi't'ts that the Ministry will have 4U votes and tlie up:>usitir>ji ."»7 : wiiilst there are tive doubtful mem'tiers ami two pairs. To solve tho problem as to which patty will be in p.»wvr p. week hence with such information upon which to base calculations

' would bailie the most penetrating discern- : nietit. Otir thing is apparent - Mr. Hail's i accession to power as the leader or the ■ i ipjio-iition is not favorable to the stability of the llovernment. He will gather supi port, and not alienate it as his hot-headed i j,redec«*ss»r did. Whatever may have ! been the motive that actuated him, his ■ ,-,.:i.!iii.t when lie announced his desire to I immediately try conclusions with the Uoi verniuent, but his willingness to await I their convenience, wa-" a master .stroke of :• liev. Our opinion i.t rhat rhi.s c'onsider-::ie-1 v. i ■ riie •■utcomo of his excellent ! iii-p"aitioii —t:ie development of tiiose faculties wiiich betoken honesty of puri n-'se. Mr. Hall's appointment will give ' ■_vni-r.il safisfaction outside the House. [ Imide the House he is decidedly popular, j Her Majesty's Opposition is one of the ! rirccs.-aries <>f representative Government, ! ami as we must rrivi: an Opposition it is | v.eii that it should be well led. If we are j not -jreatlv it; error. Mr. Hail will not harass | hi., opponents if he ilb'?* that they have a irL'hr. bv virtue of sujierior sueiigth, to ! c.-enpy the Treasury Heliches. He will ! not it.-iitii forth as Sir Win. I'Vx <lid, after I t'.ie fashion of the ravages, in contact with i wl'.orn iii: aeems to have lived far too long, land demean himsilf so that one might i almost discern the war paint and the ' tahia. No dramatic eliects will be con- ' jMLvd up to help weak c:ui?e ;no bathos

to the itcno.-i of wavcrers. Whatever Mr. Jiaii his to d", will, we think, be done quickly. Tt is better for the country that it should be ,5... and better for the Government. If thev are beaten at all. they will, so far as Mr. Mali can control his party, be beaten | fr.irlv. Whatever may be their fate, they will have tiie lasting consolation of feeling that they liavo initiated a policy that met with almost univernal approval, and that thev were discharged for ft sin which 'formed tin- smallest item on the indictf lueiit against their immediate predecessors, ; an iudictm.-nt which they met with the reply that the country required political f rest. Whatever may be* tins upshot, we [ h"pe that the country will never again be t left to the tender mercies of such men.