The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1880.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 499, 25 June 1880, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1880.

In medical practice it sometimes happens that the question of the sacrifice of the life of either the mother or the child arises, and one or the other has to be doomed, There is now before us a political dilemma of a somewhat similarjcharaeter, " Is the Colony or the Civil Service to be saved?" We were in hopes that the answer of the Ministry would be " the Colony," but as far as we can judge from indications, the Government are not prepared to sacrifice the child to the mother, but are disposed to take an intermediate course, and say we will do all we can for the mother, but we won't hurt the baby. It is the wish of the Colony that the Civil Service Commissioners should complote their investigation into the affairs of the Colony, and there is every reasou to believe that the gentlemen forming the Commission are very willing to. sacrifice their time and energies in finishing the work they have so well commenced; but the Government evidently does not desire the Commission to proceed, and so the Commissioners have resigned their task, and the only honest attempt that has been mads for years to face the difficulties under which the Colony is laboring is nipped in the bud. We have been consistent supporters of the present Ministry, but if, at this great crisis, it shirks the duty the Colony expects it to perforin we can no longer stand by it. We do not say that it is shirking this duty, but there are plain indications of an uncertainty in the Cabinet as to the task which it is expected to perform. One of the members of the Royal Commission—Mr Saunders—stated openly in the House that the Colonial Treasurer was too genial a man to give effect to the reductions necessary in the Civil Service, In other words, that the Colony and not the Civil Service was to be sacrificed. We hope this is not the case j if it be so, the Hall Ministry must make room for others,