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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3858, 15 July 1891, Page 2

The Government, stung by Mr Richardson's challenge to catch a dummy if they could, put Mr Coleman Phillips upon his trial for a second time, and failed again in their prosecu-. tion. We do net suppose that Ministers will cover themselves with ridicule by a third effort to pillry Mr Coleman Phillips. They have probably spent nearly a thousand pounds over abortive hunts after Mr Hogg's " Will of ihe Wisp," and on Mr Phillips, and it may possibly occur to them that the public will expect no. more money to be wasted after tbis fashion. Then again a Minister has been plainly accused of dummvism, and it will be scarcely equitable for the Government to screen one man and persecute another. In common, honesty they ought to spend a few pounds in investigating the ladies of members of their own party, as the public who pay for the dummy hunting have a right to catch thedumm/er even in the Cabinet room if there and there only it is possible to find him. The rumour that the Parliamentary screw may be put upon Mr Coleman Phillips is not improbable. The Government having, fired twice with . out hitting him, may now knock him down with the but end of the pistol by an unfair use of their parliamentary majority.