Australian.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3247, 4 July 1889, Page 2

Australian.

Shwey, July 3, Tho Sydney Morning Herald. this morning, has a leading article on the condition of Now Zealaud. It says the gratifying position tho colony now holds is mainly due to the administration of the Atkinson Ministry, and it was very questionable whether the position' would have been brought about had Sir Robert S(out continued in power, even had he reconstructed the Cabinet. While Sir Julius Togol presided over tho Treasury.the present state of affairs would have been quite impossible. It goes on to say that the great increase ot exports, and the rapid advance of the colony's securities, shows that public confidence within as well as outsido tho colony hus been restored, Looking at the situation from all points tho Herald considers Sir Harry Atkinson is pretty certain to remain in power till the expiry of the Parliament, and its adds, "It is better for New Zoaland that it should be so," The cable-repairing steamer Sherard Osborne having affected repairs, tailed for Nelson to-day,

Melbodbne July 3. ■The barque Vision, bound from Kuipara to Adelaide, has put in here, hiving been in collisionofi'CapeOtway with the ship Stardomene, bound from London to Melbourne, The. Vision had several of her Bpnrs curried away but sustained little injury.

Tho underwriters have abandoned the sunken ship Capo Verde. HouAitr, July 3, The Government has appointed Mr Montgomery, of the Thnines, to. the vacant Inspectorship of Mines,