THE OTAGO CENTRAL THE "POST" ATTACKS GOVERNMENT. Willington, August 24.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 397, 28 August 1889, Page 5

THE OTAGO CENTRAL THE "POST" ATTACKS GOVERNMENT. Willingto n, August 24.

Tjie "Evening Post." regrets very much the killing of tho Olago Central Railway Bill, declaiing that it was one of the measmes of the Government that really deserved support. It makes tho defeat of the Bill an opportunity for having a slap afc the Government. "Something more than the Obago Central Railway, however, went by the boavd last night," says the ''Post." "The Bill providing for that work was understood to be a kind of keystone to the public works proposals of the Government, and its rejection means, wo believe, tho abandonment of all the new works contemplated by the Public Works Statement. These were certainly not very many or very important, but some of them were desirable. In any case it is to be 10gicttedthattberc should beayear of absolute stagnation. The cessation of all public works will be severely felt in various directions and by the labouiing classes. That the whole public vvoiks proposals ol the Government should thus have to be abandoned, affords a iresh instance of the impotence and incompetence of the Ministry which now holds office, as well as ol the political demoralisation which exists in the House. Tho Ministers will thiow over and abandon everything except their seats. These they cling to tenaciously, while letting accidental majorities play havoc with their Bills and their proposals. They cannot have a vestige of political self-respect left, or they would iind the humiliation of their position simply intolerable. Ifc is surely time that the pie.-=enb Parliamentary tarce ended and Ministers were lelt to muddle along- for a few months more. Ib is abundantly evident that no real work of a useful character is likely to bo done this session, nor can it be expected from the present House. What, then, is the use of prolonging either the session on the House? Every day Parliament &its costs a good round sum of money, and ib is a poor return for the expenditure the country receives, in the time being consumed in successful attempts to keep Ministers in and their measures out. Tho boat thing to be done now for the credit and benefit of the colony would be to close the session up at once and dissolve the present Houso early in tho coming year."

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