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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1062, 18 April 1882, Page 2

If our telegrams of last night are correct, and we have every reason to believe them so to the letter, the Ministry is to have the opportunity of re-con-struction, Mr Whitaker having been sent for by the Governor with that object in view. That such a result will be met by the approval of the country at large, and hailed with acclamation as a relief from the suffocating sense of impending evil with which the possible advent of a Grey Ministry into power has for a short period clouded the political atmosphere, is a generally acknowledged fact. That Sir Arthur Gordon has, “ in spite of all temptation,” exercised an impartial and moderate discretion in his

action, which wasunconstitutional, | appears to be equally a tact. But the end is yet to come. The great pres- I sure is taken oft* by the relieving assurances conveyed in our telegram, I bur we yet look anxiously forward with impatience to the end of tedious act oi the political drama. In the meantime I the country mav be congratulated on I having tid'd successfully through aMiliisierial crisis unfortunate as it is, ' but which might possibly have resulted in absolute disaster. With Mr. 11 all's i retirement we lose the services of one of the most able Premiers the colony '. has ever possessed, and our misfortune in such loss is doubled by the know-| that his resignation was forced on him by illness. Still, though forced to re-i sign personally, he leaves us the benefits experienced in the past, and before us in the future, of the many schemes emanating from his ready wit and un-1 tiring brain for the welfare and ad-1 vanceme’it of the colony at large, to be carried out by his late colleagues in a new Ministry.