THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 18, 4 May 1867, Page 3

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

We thought we should have had the cood fortune to record to-day the downfall of the Borlase Executive, but we have been disappointed. On the unheard of motion that a quarter’s revenue should •be appropriated without the Council being furnished with any details only two members, besides themselves, could be found to vote for it. They then tendered their resignations to His Honor, but we re°ret to sav th?*t he declined to accept them. For men withnot any fixed principles to guide them, ought not to be trusted and this Borlase Executive are mere make-believes. They have neither the •disposition nor the power to do ant thing. Thev are not blind instruments in the hands of the Superintendent, for such ■useless tools as [they have p'roved, he uselves to be are not worm employing, individually each is more or less respectable, honest, and independent; but in combination tiie whole of these qualities appear to be neutralized, and like the mixture of an acid with an alkali become something •else instead. We still think it will be strange if such a ministry are allowed to retain office, and we shall be glad to see that those who were instrumental in putting them in assisting in kicking them out. Individually, we repeat, each is as honest and independent as anv other member of the House, but as a Ministry, it is at best but a sorry spectacle, without energy, without spirit, and without principle. It has lived without exciting any respect, and it would die without causing any regret.