LITERARY EMPORIUM.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 149, 15 December 1870, Page 6

LITERARY EMPORIUM.

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Retrenchment in the Cabinet is urged by the " Evening Post " in the following terms : — What do we want with seven Ministers? We have a Premier who does nothing except lecture on teetotalism, and " fatten on the proceeds of crime," in the shape of the profits on barley, which he is said to grow extensively at Eangitiki, and sell to the brewers in Wellington; we have a Treasurer and a Postmaster General, who is never to be found either in the Treasury or the Post-master-General's office; we have a Native Minister who is generally wandering about the country ; Aye have two ministers without portfolios who have been enjoying a tour on the continent ; we have a Minister of Justice whose utility no man has yet been able to discover ; and we have a Colonial Secretary who is the only man who does anything for his money, and who discharges the duties of nearly all the offices nominally held by the others. In the present state of affairs the colony can hardly afford all this, and one of the first retrenchments should be the abolition of the nominal office of Premier. We cannot afford £1000 a year to Mr. Fox to do nothing except yield his nose to the guiding fingers of Mr. Yogel. Mr. Stafford was not above holding a portfolio, and we do not see why Mr. Fox should be. We cannot afford the luxury of a Minister of Justice simply because Mr. Sewell wanted £1000 a year and a politcal position ; and it is a farce having a Treasurer and Postmaster- General living in Auckland, where, by-the-bye, another gentleman is paid a very handsome salary as Government Agent. The number of Ministers should be fixed by law, and they should be required to attend to their duties. ,

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