The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 285, 9 October 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1879.

It is thought by some that now a Hall Ministry is an accomplished fact that a few days will see it in a minority, and that the Liberal party will come again into office under a new leader. Past experience in New Zealand political life, however, tends to indicate that a new Ministry is pretty certain to hold its own for at least one or two sessions, There is always a difficulty in ejecting a Ministry which once gets in. A majority of two is apparently a very small capital for a Cabinet to start with, but the possession of power gives it a vantage ground which enables it to at once increase the numerical strength of its supporters. It was the Government patronage that enabled the Grey Ministry to retain office from the time it was constituted, This advantage tells now against instead of for the Liberal party, and turns the scale more surely than does that of the two votes, The late Ministry, too, was disunited and badly officered, The new one, we have every reason to believe, will be more homogeneous, and will be led by a chief who possesses the valuable art of conciliation, The colony of New Zealand is so divided by old political landmarks and institutions that no Ministry can possibly satisfy it as a whole, The Grey Ministry had the support of two out of the five great provincial districts of the colony—Auckland and Otago, and it will be idle'for the Hon, John Hall to expect now any great amount of support from either of them. In the provincial districts of Canterbury, Wellington, Nelson, Napier, and Taranaki the Hall Ministry will, however, have such an amount of support as wili enable it to put up with the opposition of Otago and Auckland, The time will come some day, we hope, when a Premier in New Zealand may be able to select his colleagues without reference to the various parts of the colony from which they are returned to the Assembly, but at present this cannot be done, In England Ministers are selected for their fitness for office. In New Zealand they are chosen more for the sake of the provincial districts with which they are connected with, As long as inter-provincial jealousies prevail in the colony so long we shall have to put up with second-rate Cabinets. Gradually a County feeling will replace the Provincial influence which now embarrasses New Zealand. When County parties take the place of Provincial parties, we may expect to obtain better Parliaments and abler Ministers,