The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1887. A DYING SWAN

Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue 2550, 18 March 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1887. A DYING SWAN

It is said that a swan prior to its dissolution '■ unlocks its silent throat" and sings its first ■ and laßfc song. Wo have got at last from our dying swan, the Stout-Vogel Ministry, a distinct utterance premonitory to it 3 demise. Till the other day, when the Premier spoke at Marton, we hardly knew whether the Ministry was to be regarded as a radical cabinet or a coalition cabinet. We have had "on the one side Sir Julius Vogel a good Conversative, and on the other, Mr Ballance a dangerous Radical, The Premier, however, has managed to pose as a sort of half Radical and half Conservative leader, and the other members of the Oabinethavebcen politi-. | cal dummies. The question ofhow the Ministry are going to the country may now be considered settled. The Premier chanted a Radical war song at Marton. He has evidently chucked over his Conservative colleague Sir Julius and isprepared to do or die with Mr Ballance. We are glad of this, becausean unnatural politicaVcombination is about to be dissolved. Canterbury turned Radical to secure the East and West Coast Railway, and having through the eminent stategic ability of her leader Sir Julius succeeded in this undertaking, will probably drift back quietly to Conservatism, and. break off her alliance with Ocago. The main difficulty will be what is to be done with Sir Julius. The Radicals don't want him, and he will have nokns volera to leave their camp, and the Conservatives don't want him. At the same time, as leader of the Canter-, bury party, he carries a section'of theHouse with him. He cannot afford to take the position of dignified obstruction which Bir George Grey assumes because ho does not enjoy that comfortable independauce which enables the latter to live out of office. It 1b something however to ~be able to turn one corner at a time when we are travelling in a right direction, and we may bo satisfied to know that Sir Robert Stout and Mr Ballanco are not going to the country in company with Sir Julius, , ;;