The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1880.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 541, 13 August 1880, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1880.

We notice, by the, /last number pf Hansard, our 'voluminous'' : record of foolish speeches, that there has been a jolly row between the fiords. Among the older members of the House there is evidently a very sore feeling against the later additions—the creations of Sir George Grey—and if the Speaker, in opening ,a sitting with the customary 'prayer,"were' to' say,'< ( evil and' .niisohief,, ifrora the crafts and assaults .of Sir. .George Grey, good Lord .deliver us," the amen of the bulkYof 'the congregation 'would probably be exceptionally fervent. /The old lords as V body, are jrien of whom the Colony might fairly be proud—they are igenuniej metal—but when Sir George Greycamei into* power,-, .andtrfoundjifc. expedient to add tosthe number of the! Legislative Council,' 1 he ! ha'd4m6hg his' l .followers ifew; h who/,would ,pass muster" at.the mint, and so n« was ojjujj^Jb<

mix a little electroplate with old silver of,,the Upper House.* M. L, G. v feet if/ a~ num beiv of second-class passtogeWvhad been.': thrust into' theii" first-class compart-? ment by the guard, who had'a'down' upon them,..and so.;they took an opportunity of having it out, not with;; Sir G'e'orgeGrey, because they could not get at him, but. with his late colleague, - ■G6l6rteL"-Whitmoro;.--- -A.': g6'od'"'mah'f honorable; members sat. upon this gallantf offic'er.; Had' he notorice* been ; wont4odefend the-honor of the Co'un--cil, and • yet when Sir George Grey went about the country abusing it he. was silent, and had he not-assisted the; Premier in swamping the Council with undesirable additions, created, not ; for increasing its; efficiency, : but for the purpose of obtaining a majority of votes to carry out the measures of the. Grey Ministry. It VaV hardly fair to Colonel Wlritmore to visit on his .own; ljead the sins of his''political.chief."■ This gallant officer lias "always held a high position both iri't'lie Council and the colony, and no; one. l will think any the worse of him because he; after joining the Ministry of Sir George Grey, proved loyal to it through good report and evil report, The Legislative Council is evidently dissatisfied that one of its own proper men should have joined the enemies' camp, and will not readily forgive him for his defection. It is, evidently, not 1 because Colonel Whitniore is a Liberal that the Council pitched into him, but simply because he was a follower of a reckless demagogue, Should Sir George Grey ever again come into power, we fancy that Colonel Whitniore would think twice about joining him as a colleague, His past career as a. member of Sir George's Cabinet, though a highly creditable one from the loyalty and industry which characterised it, has injured him among his fellow members. We hops to see, however, the Liberal party survive in the colony, but if it is to do any, good for us it must, for the future, be led by such men as Colonel Whitmore,' There is at present too much shoddy in the Liberal camp, and it is this which makes it contemptible in the eyes of colonists, In Colonel Whitmore himself there is no shoddy, but then he has mixed himself up with shoddy people, and he is made to bear the punishment of shoddyism, Sir George Grey himself is not shoddy, but he clothes himself with shoddy, as with a garment, and we are not at all sure that this is not worse than being inherently shoddy. In the foremost ranks of the Liberal party in England shoddy has no place, and we trust that the time will come when as much may be said of New Zealand,