The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 282, 6 October 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1879.

It is extremely gratifying to find the Grey Ministry condemned by the Parliament elected under their own auspices. After resorting to all sorts of tricks and dodges, after unduly influencing the' elections in order to retain place and power, the good sense not only of the constitutional party but of many members of the Liberal party, has pronounced a verdict of unmistakeable censure upon the worst administration which ever carried on the Government of the colony. Practically the duties of administration for the Inst two years have been carried on not by Ministers but by the permanent heads of the Civil Service, The late Colonial Treasurer, the Colonial Secretary, and the Minister for Public Works were more or less attentive to departmental obligations. It has been, however, notorious that the Premier lias almost ignored them, and the only real work he has done has been to make inflammatory speeches and endless promises. The Native Department has, it is well known, got into endless confusion, and though the Native Minister has at times discharged onerous duties, his personal habits precluded hint from giving that attention to his work that was necessary to its efficiency. We anticipate that the new Ministry which will have to replace the existing one will find more than one of the public departments in utter confusion, and that a heavy task of reconstruction and reorganization lies before it. We may, however, congratulate ourselves on a lair prospect of peace and good government. The defeat ot the Grey Minis try will tend to raise the credit of New Zealand in the London money market, and the financial pressure which has borne so heavily upon us for the past six months will be mitigated. We regard the vote of Friday evening last as a guarantee of future prosperity, and as a rescue from further difficulties into which the colony would undoubtedly have been plunged had the present Ministry continued in office. The New Zealancler claims that all Sir George Grey has to do is to reconstruct his Ministry—to throw a Jonah overboard, we presume, to satisfy the Opposition whale. Every circumstance tends, however, to indicate that Sir George Grey himself is the Jonah of the vessel, and this makes the course recommended by our contemporary impracticable. It might be urged that the Premier could not be a Jonah, because it is not recorded of him, as it was ot the Prophet of old, that" when he took ship to go to Tarshish (the Christchurch of the period) ke paid the fare thereof." There is something to be said in favor of Sir George on this ground j but on the other hand, it may be alleged that in the days of Nineveh there was no Hinemoa,