CORRESPONDENCE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1851, 7 September 1874, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE MINISTER,CAL CHANGES.

To tho Editor of the Thames Advertiser,

Sir, —Mr Vogel, it seems, denies the accuracy of the telegrams which'purported to describe his negotiations with Mr Stafford. Such denial would have been considered by some as more deserving of credence if it had been confirmed by Mr Stafford. Those who are acquainted with that peculiar diplomacy in which the New Zealand Premier has proved himself so accomplished an adept, and who are at all conversant with the doings of the New Zealand Cabinet, are probably not prepared to deny that at least half-a-dozen of those members who have never supported Mr Yogel's Ministry, as such, have been repeatedly sounded, to learn if they would favourably entertain proposals to join the present Cabinet, and these members refusing tho bait, we now find Major Atkinson, one of the celebrated Taranaki trio, who, representing one constituency amongst them, invariably are Government supporters on priuciple, no m-itter what tho Government or what the policy. This Major Atkinson, when Mr .Stafford was in office in 1872, was returned as a Government supporter in opposition to the extreme Yogolite, Mr Moorhcuse, and now he is a colleague of Mr Stafford's opponent. In 1873 he contested unsuccessfully with Mr Oarrington, the Superintendency of Taranaki, and failing in that, he was glad to become Mr Oarrington's Prims Minister. Truly it would seem that the necessities of somi of our rulers are stronger than their political principles, unless such principles aro to make public duty subservient to their personal advantage,-! am., &c., Nemo.