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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 2 July 1880, Page 2

Oku of the Litest rumors from Wellington is to the effect that a supporter of the Ministry intends, with the concurrence of Ministers, Imnging down a Bill to repeal the Triennial Parliaments Bill, and re-establish the old system of quinquennial Parliaments. How much truth there is in this report it would he difficult to say, and we shall not therefore an opinion upon the matter. Nor will we attempt ip discusß tjie question fully until the report receiyps yerificatipn. But we must certainly admit that'we should not be greatly surprised were, such a proposal seriously brought forward. We never believed that the Hall Ministry were thoroughly jn earnest in their professed desire to pass the Liberal jpeagpres advpcftteA by Sjr Grcyr and his party, t-The whole thing was purely a move to delude the electors ! at the time of the general election. It would not in the least surprise ( us to hear that, the Ministry contemplated bringing forward Bills to repeal all the Liberal measures already TY e know that electoral reform —anything in fact calculated" to give the mass of the people a voice in the conduct of the affaire of the country—is particularly distasteful to Messrs Hall and Co. We cannot expunge from the tablets of our memory tiie fact that Mr. Hall not long ago said, "The right of the indiyidiial is to be well governed, but not to exercise political power." Neither can we forget that the present dominant party adopted every means to prevent the Liberal party passing measures of reform. The knowle<|ga of these things prepares us for any announcement of a reversal of the Liberal policy, stolen. from the Civ.oy party and very charily given effect to by the present Ministry under the pressure of public opinion strongly 311 d firmly expressed. We have givei*. currency to the report as a warniug note to the electors to bo prepared for any attempt to revert to the Conservatism of the past.