Wairarapa Daily Times [ESTABLISHED 1878] FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1892. THAT AWKWARD COUNCIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4147, 24 June 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times [ESTABLISHED 1878] FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1892. THAT AWKWARD COUNCIL.

BEINO 188 EXTENDED TITLE OF THE Waibarapa Daily, with which it is IDENTICAL. ' ;

So Ministers have failed to Make the Earl of Glasgow see with their eyeß, in that little matter of appointments to the Legislative Council I We are genuinely sympathetio; that is to we are sorry for them in their hour, of defeat, though we do not precerjd'to any .poignant regret that '■■ they,, have found themselves unable to paint the Council Chamber, "the right colour." Still,; remembering the voyage 01. our ; whole Navy to and from Australia, "Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the Helm "—the smiling Buckley and, .the gorgeous Fairbhild—recalling, too, tho studious preliminary civilities of language about Lord Glasgow which have been gracing : the Morning Journal, we confer that we'do feel very much for Ministers at this moment, If blandishments could work upon the Governor, they had some right to'ex* pectsuccess';:' : '•'" ■■'■'■■\o' : | However, Ministers have. failed; and their own particular newspaper tries to sound a note off dignified (;acquiescence'in the failure, tyhliiokily, ithe JNtui 'ZwldniTmeamt?Am the thing, In attempting the comparatively light touch which will show the grinning world that the result is of no great moment to the Liberal party, the Times has managed.to achieve 'a horrible jauntiness',' an' absolute swagger, like the demeanour of the hardened criminal walking to the gallows, ".pale, but firm," as the reporters say, First of all, the Times sets ,to.work to " damn with faint praised the Governor who refuses to hear the 1 voice of the charmer. He is "not yet, sufficiently acquainted with the state ol politics"; in shore, be is" unaccustomed to the exercise of his duties." We fancy that the Hon/theMinistetial who understands Shakespeare and the musical .glasses, and all that,: would like to use about His Excellency the language of a foreign dramatist, " gm duxbk alkit-il fan dans cetle"galereY 'What is Lord Glasgow going to do in this land df the Demos anyhow ? But, thus far, such impotent gnashings as these are not audible to ths world.

Passing fromjta patronising" commiseration of Lord Glasgow for not knowing better, the Timet, still holding lip its head bravely, proceeds to inform us that there is no doubt Lord Onslow got a privsto wigging from his superiors at the Colonial Office, for presuming to gWe the wicked AtkinsoD those; ■ Legjsjatiye Ooudcillors whom lie badno 'business to ask for: .andthe Timet t supposes that with Jibrd. Glasgow in determlDlng his present, refusal. We suppose nothipg of tbjei kind.; The capes are not parallel-as the K»i*s itself elaborately points out'. It is to the number asked for in. this instance, not to the principleinvolved, that His .demurs, Bui the.iTimfsV" knows nothing of the numbers asked for by the Govern--merit/'. Jfevgrtheless, after making this elaborate,'displa? pf >BPM??wi. the Times gives us a'.qnasi-uuthorita-tive statement, in tp.e p>xt eojumn, tp theeffeet that'fifteen conpcjllprs a} least w'erp asked forby- the' governs ment, I • Not content with exhibiting the courage which receives defiantly the news that the death warrant has been signed,' the orgart;'of.» the'''doomed Libe)al Gbvernhient'beco'inesoracular imsM l 'M''0 1 $ ! °* iu il ' threatfln'in'g3 of, e yjlr-"|,? J#Fi » tinie will come-l 1 -' It haß heard apr prehensions of a dead lock expressed by.the public; but these appreheniions the»«does not share, It tells jiß fhac something far more dreadful gay be }n jjtori |ff the independence of the iCJbunjSll requfre,a M the Government follw.ngjM'? fc e " smftllas it can possibly be made, then' '»■ the only coarse js to lei tb,e Council. .onietlygrbwinegfoieptin tye ordinary course of nature;'in wliicl) casjj itwj)l : not bß,long, before the Council wjll receive the ewpde grace from lk popular voico." -, -' ; The Timet does hot. seem altogether persuaded that this will happen. We ourselves i feel Btire. that it will not,

a;,wily atrevert roila'staesalbri's game it possible for "the Ootiihoil to beoome extinct through being boycotted by a " Liberal" ministry, we • cannot imagine a more honourable death. Of ;course the thing is ridiculous, but if it were oonceivable it would show the Upper Chamber in the enviable light of a bodyresisting to the,|asfc„.any, atteiript'tb tamper with its oharaoter or to render nugatory the functions bestowed on' it by the constitution/' ; * Since'our Wellington mdrnirigcontimpdrary'.professes -itself so -jlUinformed on the situation, we will make it a present of this piece of intelligence; -In tlie;eyens{ |qf,,His) Excellent proving hard-hearted to the' end, something will- undoubtedly happen, and that something is'what'men; oafr a Dissolution." An. difference of opinion' 1 betw'eb'ri'the Governor and-hu responsible advisers; must terminate either in the resigns? tion of the,G6ve'rnnientor in a dissolution. For reasons of our own,.we.are sore that the former conrso will not he adopted. The dissolution willsurprise us not at all, >