The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1882.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1055, 22 April 1882, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1882.

After much ado about nothing, Ministers have dropped into their old places, and tho State coach runs on smoothly, little the worse for the capsize to which it has beon subjected. "As you were" is the final command of Captain Sir Arthur Gordon, and this after Opposition papers, have formed Grey Ministries ad libitum \ and havo blessed the special Providence which inspired His Excellency with the wisdom to send for Sir George. Tho unhappy Opposition Press, when it found that its "castle in the air" had vanished was driven to the wretched extremity of eating all its own words or of proclaiming the wonderful tidings that Sir George Grey advised His Excellency so send for Mr WhUAKER. In some instances it boldly adopted the latter alternative, and that while poor Sir George was steaming back to Auckland, a disappointed man, with a list of rejected ministers in his pockets, and with his own name at the head of it. It is pretty well well known that Sir George did not agree with Sir Ajtiiur in the official interview held at Wellington, and that they parted on anything but friendly terms. His Excellency now stands alone, in this colony, having, by his last piece of folly offended the Opposition party as well as the Ministerial one. No doubt he will take his departure from J\ T cw Zealand at as early a date as possible, and it will bo difficult to say whether his ojit will not be more gratifying to himself than it will be even to the public,