THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O' CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2992, 17 September 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O' CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1878.

The holiday trip of members of Parliament fo the South does not, by all accounts, seem to hare conduced to the harmbnibus conduct of the public business since the resumption of legislature duties. Too much speechifying on the grand event for the celebration of which members adjourned brought into prominence the name' of S:r Julius Vogel, which, it is said, Ministers take as an insult. This is scarcely conceivable, for, with the exception of the Hon. James Masandrew, no member of the present Ministry can claim any share of the credit which attaches to the originator of the Public Works, or railway policy. It does not seem at all strange that in the multilude of toasts proposed during the recent festivities the name of Julius Vogel should have been honored. Indeedi it would have been most strange if his share in the inauguration of the railway system had been allowed to pass unrecognised, especially in the provincial districts of Canterbury and Otago, where the advantages of that policy are so perceptibly felt. What Ministers could. take umbrage'at we fail to see, as they have by rebent actions approved the policy, and gone even further than was expected in their: proposals for extending the same. The: bitterness said to have been engendered may exist only in the imagination of newspaper correspondents, and the openly displayed opposition of some members previously understood to be favorable to the Government may be only the outcome of a temporary feeling of regret, awakened by what they saw on their trip south, that they have not been more alive to the wants of their own districts. The Government, however, are committed to the policy of their predecessors in the matter of completing the railway system, and Northern members will best consult the interests of the';

constituents by according support to the Public Works Statement and financial proposals of the present Government, which hare elicited approval from the Colony generally. It is desirable that Ministers should have the support "of members; and if it should be withheld, in the event of an appeal to the country, some of the fractious one> will find themselves left out in the cold. The experience of Northern members on their trip South

advantages for I lie North, rather than induce them to ihvrnrt the intentions of the party in povveiv.