The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY,APRIL 8,1885. THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1959, 8 April 1885, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY,APRIL 8,1885. THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS.

* After waiting for a week to see which way the wind of public opinion blows, the Ministerial organ at Wellington has come out with an article on the recent appointments to the legislative Council. The wind of public opinion has blown i pretty strongly in the faces of Ministers, ami the article in question is strong in proportion, intended, no doubt, as the first stepping stone towards a safe retreat out of the Ministerial mire—- . a feat in the performance of which he has, on former occasions, shown an astonishing degree of agility. There is, of course, some satisfaction to find these appointments B condemned in such a quarter, as it tends to show that Ministers themselves have t been frightened, though the transparent fear in the article detracts considerably from its notice. The mere mention of '■ the name 0 f Phahazyn was very naturally ' the signal for another .hit at Mr C. J. Puarazyn, who has just retired from the Council, and we are told that " Mr Bobert promotion was 1 undoubtedly the result of a well understood bargain, in whloh his father's resignation was what lawyers would term a 1 condition preoedent,' We qanijut approve of or defend a bargain of this kind, but, on the contrary, deem such trafficking with Parliamentary privileges most reprehensible. The most satisfactory point in the present instance is that the suc- . cession hasfallen to Mr Robert Pharazyx '• instead of Mr Charles Pharazys, as was originally desired by Mr C. J, Pharazyn." There ig a, good deal in ' this with which no one could very well 2 disagree, and we should admire the senfciir ment, had its expression been caused by e the alleged facts. Mr C. J. Pharazyn " may pr may not have retired to make it room for itip .spn, but it is certain that '• the latter would never Ijayo boon called to the House had he not enHfejy cj^ngcjj his political creed at the time of the last election, and gone over unrcservodly into the camp of his former enemy, the Hon, J. Ballanoe. As to Mr C, J. Pharazyn p havfng been desirous that the succession should Iwe faljen to his son Charles' that, we confidently assort, is extremely 11 improbable, as the offer would liayg been ;_ declined with thanks. It is one of those ii cases in which a son is abused becauso ho hasafother who is known in politics, ( s and the father for having a son who has n also gained prominence among the think - ■ ing portion of the community, Tliego , eloments being removed from the arcuj men.ts wo have quoted, the residue will } be found to. contain nothing that is worthy of notice.