The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1884. THE COMING SESSION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1701, 3 June 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1884. THE COMING SESSION.

On Thursday, the day after to-mor-row, tho session of 1884 opens, The balance of public opinion .appears to fa\or a dissolution before many weeks are over.. Major Atkinson has made an appeal' to the country for members to despatch the business of the session and then' go to their constituents, but it is a question whether advice of this kind will be, or ought to be, listened to. If Major Atkinson has a majority in the-House'and in the country, ho is quite justified in calling upon merabors not to waste time in getting to real work, but if, as it is generally believed, ho is in a minority, ho has no right to try to force Government measures through the House. Work done by a Ministry which does not possess the confidence of the country would be unlikely to stand, It would simply have to be' undone, and the difficulty would only bo postponed. - Major Atkinson's principal reliance is evidently not in the. strength of his own party, but on the divisions which exist among his opponents. Ho has not probably a majority in the House, but then no other party leader can command one. The only solution for dilemma of this kind is a coalition Ministry or an appeal to the country. The only probable coalition would' be ons between Major Atkinson and Sir Julius Vogel, but even this arrangement would be hampered with obvious difficulties. Major Atkinson is very tenacious of his own opinions. Very many of them have been embodied in Acts of Parliament, and we' doubt whether.ho would I>b willing for them to be annulled, even to retain office. He must feel, too, that ho has reached fie end of his tether' as Premier, and that a placo on the Opposition benches would be more congenial to him for a while. A dissolution with an appeal to the country is a morelikely event than a coalition, The Ministry, if they find they cannot cairy their measures through the House and obtain supplies will ask for one, and His Excellency the Governor will undoubtedly grant it. A colonial Governor is placed in a very uncomfortable position when he finds that his Ministers have not the support of the country, and that there is no other well defined political party to advise him, However inconvenient and expensive it may be to have two sessions of Parliament in one year, the disadvantages of postponing the existing political complications instead of resolving them would, in the long run, prove a greater loss, A dissolution is the lesser evil, and as such should be resorted to.