THE Temuka Leader. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1892. PARTY TACTICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2395, 6 September 1892, Page 2

THE Temuka Leader. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1892. PARTY TACTICS.

Moiie scandalous waste of time. A fewdays ago a cablegram arrived from Home stating in all probability the Home Government would uphold the New Zealand Government with regard to the Legislative Council. The Opposition took it into their sagacious heads that the New Zealand Government had cabled Home to the Agent-General, aud that he had so manipulated things that lie got the cables sent out to this colony as stated above. In reply to Mr G. Hutchison, Mr Bailance assured the House that the Government had not communicated with the Home Government directly or indirectly on the subject, and that he knew nothing of the source of the cablegrams. This did not satisfy Mr Rolleston. Finding himself baffled in this way, he went on another tack with the view of harassing the Government and wasting time. He asked the Premier whether any correspondence passed between the Government and the Ag<?nt- General relative to the appointment of the itusw Governor. Mr Bailance said he had

written a private letter to the AgentGeneral, asking him to try to ascertain the name of the new Governor before his appointment. The Home Government promised the Agent-General to let him know the name of the new Governor, but was not kept. Mr Rolleston then proceeded to attack the Premier for having written a private x i the Agent-General, and the roYr letter *_ -hole a ft erno on. No Gowent on tho v,- ",-+. n the exception vernment supporter v*. ■ .. 1 -'iin spoke, of Messrs Ballance and *■••.« but the ball was kept rolling bt w Opposition all the afternoon, and ihey renewed the subject again at night, so that practical nothing else was done. Now, with regard to the cables, Mr Seddon read a document which showed that the Press Association sent to the Home papers a cable about the division on the debate about the Legislative Council appointments. That settled that question. Then as regards the Government asking to be informed as to the name of the new Governor. This question was also settled a few years ago.. Just about three years ago Sir Thomas Mcllwraith objected to the appointment of Sir Henry Blake as Governor of Queensland, with the result that another Governor was sent-. There was a great commotion about the matter at the time, and Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, the Premier of Victoria, and, in fact, all the political chiefs of the colonies, supported the contention that the Australian Governments should be consulted with regard to future appointments of Governors, and to this the Home Government agreed. In pursuanceof this arrangement no doubt Mrl.allance tried to ascertain tho now Governor's name, but although, the Home Government promised to let the AgentGeneral know, the promise was not kept. Now this breach of faith would have provoked many a Colonial Government to follow the example of Sir Thomas Mcllwraith, and decline to accept Lord Glasgow, but Mr Ballanco is one of the host tempered and best uatured of men, find ho said nothing at all about it. Mr Ballance was therefore perfectly justified in asking to bo informed of the name of the new Governor before his appointment, and Mr Rolleston knows it.