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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4336, 23 November 1882, Page 2

The Ministry, as hitherto constituted (says the N.Z. Times), was deemed unique after a fashion which does not usually characterise Ministers in these days, it is that there was not a " smoker " among them. Whether this was due to a native tendency to abstinence from all the minor indulgences of life, or to the restraining influence exerted over them by * their respective better halves may be considered as a moot point. But.any how, it was regarded by some of their friends, as also by some of their opponents as entailing' on them a loss of power. This defect, however, has been remedied by fie recent accession to their number, as the newly appointed Minister of Justice is recognised as an openly avowed devotee to the weed. The administration will now have any advantage supposed to be derivable from a capacity to puff. Yet some there are, who, seriously or otherwise, imagine that their Cabinet organisa. tion will not be complete until they hard one in tbeir circle capable of attending to the " nipping " department.