RESULT OF ELECTIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1642, 4 October 1887, Page 2

RESULT OF ELECTIONS.

WHAT IT MEAT'S. The Auckland Ball shows a thorough appreciation of the disastrous effects of the late election. It says : “ We accept the defeat of the Ministry as one of the Liberal party, brought about by the unfortunate entanglements of * coalition.’ As wo have said before, there is inherent weakness in coalition, which makes it difficult to bear the rough shaking of a general political struggle. The Liberal party has suffered by this unfortunate connection, and now (be people will have the advantage of a sound j-To r y Government. The leases of the Canterbury runs, which expire next year, will be renewed to the holders instead of being broken up into five or six thousand acre sections and thrown open to settlers. Local Industries will be loft to their ordinary development. The Civil Service will again be manipulated for the sons and sons-in-law of the “ governing classes,'* and for dowries to their daughters. Village settlement and other forms of settlement which do not enable the wealthy to mop up public lands will receive the go-by. The natives will be allowed to freely pass over their lands to those possessed of long purses and knowledge of ‘ Oriental finesse,’ Dr Pol'en will receive his arrears of pension, and Dr L«ishley will become * Sir Richard Laishley,’ These are facta which we must grin and bear, and the L : berals of New Zealand who hare failed in a time of trial will have an opportunity now for a few years of chewing the cud of bitter reflection. For all this we have to thank, more than any other man, Sir George Grey. He has now had his great revenge in seeing the defeat of Sir Kobe-t Stout. His touch in Auckland has been fatal to every candidate who sought to conjure by his name, but down south bis mission to wreck and smash the Liberal party which once so trusted him, and heaped such honors on his head, has been successful, and wa congratulate him on bis reflections as be gazes on the ruin he has caused. In this general review of the scene after the I storm of yesterday, we must make a passing reference to S ; r Robert Stont. ‘A great man has fallen in Israel'—was once a pathetic lament. That we echo, saying that indeed a great man has fallen in New Zealand—the greatest, best, and most trusted leader of the people that this colony has ever known. Sir Robert Stout is instinct with popular sympathies, and with hatred of claws privilege and vested wrong. It is therefore he is hated, and then £ ire sc strenuous efforts were put forth to compass his fall. Wo believe he retire* now frun public life, and wo do not wonder, ft is « thankless task for those who devotedly 1 bor for the people, a very profitable one for those who labor for themselves, and ws shall now hear

ringing from the lips of all the rings an« land thieves and self-seeking politicians of the colony one general chorus of ncclama* tion ‘ Sir Robert Stout hss fallen 1 ’ ’’