The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY. JUNE 2, 1887. THE GOVERNMENT TACTICS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2613, 2 June 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY. JUNE 2, 1887. THE GOVERNMENT TACTICS.

In tho House on TueKtUiy lust tlie Premier said that it would be tho effort of tho Govornment to have tho Representation Bill |)assed as apedily as possible, in order that Parliament might be summoned as early as poasiblo for the despatch of business. At precisely the same time in the Upper House the Hon the Colonial Secretary was engaged blocking the said Representation Bill. Sir Julius Vogel, however, accounted for the apparent inconsistency of the conduct of Sir Robert Stout and Mr Buckley by asking the House to continue in force for n few months the celebratod tariff which lias been already ignominiously rejected by lion, members. It is supposed that the whole thing was one of the ' confidenco tricks of tho Ministry. Ministers were pledged by the Government to pas* the Representation Bill and to obtain supplies as a condition for dissolution, it is even staled that His Excellency, with commendable forethought, bad these pledges put down in black and white. Tho giumi played by the Ministry waß to get Ihe House to refuse tho supplies llitiv asked for in order to have an excuse for not proceeding with the Representation Bill, Supplies were therefore put up sin ply to be knocked down and the Reprehentation Hill was put buck in the Upper House, How tar all these Uclics are consistent with the written pledges itiveu to the Governor is a question. The Ifuuw, however, is very unlikely to allow a beaten and defeated Ministry to wriggle out of the premises with which they have hound themselves, and though Ministerfmay gain time in evading the passage of the Representation Bill they will ultimately be forced to go on with it or to resign,