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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2273, 30 June 1880, Page 2

It is understood that another effort will be made this session to remove the seat of Government to Christchurch. This time His Excellency will be asked to allow a sum to be placed on the estimates for the purpose of holding the next session in the Cathedral City. The proposition will, of course, be fair game for the inevitable ways who hum like sandllies round the matchbox pagoda of the State. But many a good project has been covered with ridicule at lirst. There are somewhat weighty reasons at present why a change of seat should be tried. The present scat of Government is little better than a nest of vampires. At all events it is no bed of roses for any Ministry that aims at administrative reform. The Civil Service nest has its head quarters at Wellington, and the removal of Parliament, if only for a session, would undoubtedly be

a move in the proper direction, for it would tend to break up the family brood which is draining away the vitals o£ the colony. The proposal should have the hearty assent of every representative in the Middle Island,and we arc satisfied it will be vigorously supported by the Auckland members. If Civil Service reform and departmental retrenchment are really to bo carried out and the reforms projected are not to be illusive, the decisive step of removing the scat of Government,and thus unearthing the parasites of which Sir George Grey had so much to say, when ho visited Timaru, will have the hearty concurrence of the Legislature.