Wellington Gossip.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3235, 2 July 1879, Page 2

Wellington Gossip.

[By Telegraph.]

(feom a coeeespokdent.)

Wellington, Last night. I Therftria no fear at present of a further disruption of the Cabinet. It is uncertain even if the resignation of Mr Ballance is any detriment to the Ministry; as his imaginative financial statement delivered last year would have caused his humiliation and that of his colleagues, while his land tax administration has afforded scope for Colonial derision. Only Ballance's side of the Btory has been made public. Ev&y other Cabinet Minister ' the colony has yet had considered tb^e proceedings in Cabinet were protected from publicity. Mr Ballance will be remembered for his late astions—he forsook his party and abandoned his principles, if ho ever had any. Ho can nov# only sit on a rail; as neitlfcr side will have him. It has been' rumored for a long tima thrf he was disloyal to his chief. In the Wanganui Herald and Wellington Chronicle thgjfrisdom and genius of J. Ballance warextollJl,and an was made to flrow a mantle of infirmity both mental and physical over his chief. He has made the infantile political mistake of thinking he could run alone. The Post, Chronicle, and Times are now all arrayed against the Premier, denouncing his autocracy* forgetting what reward is due to his faithless colleagues. Mr Ballance w&s also in favor of a vigorous policy against,the natives, and like Whitmore, forgetting they are British subjects bve^whom the Crown exercises a jealous guardianship. It was only the Premier's firmness that caused the natives ploughing to bo treated as ordinary trespassers, not as rebels. The whole cause of the ploughing is over the awards granted by the New Plymouth Compensation Court held in June 18G6, before Judges Fenton, Rogan, and Monro, and which have not yot been given effect to. This question will be well ventilated when the arrested arc tried at the Supremo Court. The venue will be changed. There is nothing known :of the Ministerial intentions now Ballanige the leaky member of the Cabinet haa|gone. The Wanganui Herald will be about the chief sufferer from his change .bti luck, losing the advertisements given jjfr thatpaper and to no other.,/ %k