Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] MONDAY, JULY 25, 1892. ENGLISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4174, 25 July 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

MONDAY, JULY 25, 1892. ENGLISH POLITICS.

Being the extended tiths o? the Wairabapa Daily, with' which it is identical

The eager interest with which the progress of a gr»at English election has been watched in the colonies is n sufficient assurance tliat we recognise the reality of the three-fold cord which binds us to the mother-country. Unity of race, identity of gorerninent, and commercial interdependence are factors sufficient in themselves to promote and maintain a federation between England and her colonics, which could not be more genuine if it were dignified with a formal title or begotten by Act of Parliament. Every colonist who reads the newspapers—in other words, the totality of colonists—may justly be said to have followed the varying fortunes of the great political parties at Homo with an intelligent solicitude fully equal to that which our English coinpeeraarein the habit of exhibiting, The result of the elections, as now announced, will be received with every feeling except surprise. We have all foreseen the numerical triumph of the Liberal party at the poll; we' have probably discounted the value of their supppsed victory by the reflection that it is only on one point of policy that the Liberals wili unite their divergent ranks—if even on that; and it is possible that many of us have Been reason at the same time to predict another general eleotion within twelve months. A majority of 42 is very far from being a working majority in a House of six hundred and seventy members, and it is quite in accordance with precedent that Lord Salisbury should elect to meet Parliament bofore resigning, At the same time it must beadmitted that, difficult though the position of the Liberal leader may be, that of a Conservative Premier would be intolerable; and there is no reason to doubt that a few weeks will Bee Mr Gladstone holding the seals of office—at any rate for a time,

It would be unwise, for us to profess any violent party sympathies in an article on English politics-un-wise in oursrlves, uninteresting to our fellow-colonists, and calculated to provoke the fine old gibe about the influence pf the Waibarapa Daily Times at Windsor. Btjt thoro are one or two points on which wo are justified in offering a modest expression of opinion, more especially if we are able to show that the colonies are not unaffected by the change of policy, on which WB aro commenting. Let us, thenj tajie tlje Ijhprfy to say that we very much regrpt the paturn of Mr' Gladstone to power, .on the ground that each peripd of his administration has been marked by a certain humiliation of England in the eyes of the European Great Powers. It is a commonplace of political controversy, that domestic affairs are the strong point of the English Liberals; and, in view of the vigorous line lately adopted by the Labour party, it is quite likely that Home Office legislation in th's future' rnay bf even more minutely directed to t)ie supposed service of tho people, But it is at least as notorious that the Foreign policy affected by Mr Gladstone has involved for .England the loss of positive power, of prestige, and of hard cash, Lord Beaconafield üßed to be''.Moused of','nosing" before foreign powers, of striking*' attjtudp, ofentering light-heartedly upon'"little, wars "-but we venture to think that pur nation ))ap had little occasion to regret the adoption of Lord Beaconsfield'suncompromisingandcourageoui tactics, fiike Lord Palmerston before hini, yl)0 jncurred a temporary unpopularity and achieved a lasting triumph in the '.'Trent" affair, Lord Beaconsfield taught.his party to say of their country's foes " ptkrint, dvm mrtuant." What, on the other hand, do we owe to Mr Gladstone, as regards our relations with foreign powers? We owo it to him that England had to pay enormous damages—some millions of money—to the United States over I

the mutter of the cruiser "Alabama;" we owe it to Mr Gladstone that an apology praotioally national had to be tendered once to the Empire of Austria ; we are Mr Gladstone's debtors for more "little wars" resulting from a feeble and vaoillating foreign policy than the British taxpayer ever had to pay for under Lord Beaconsfield's policy of national self-assertion. We hesitate to ondorse the popular opinion that the death of General Gordon was directly traceable to Mr Gladstone's weakness; but we say that blood and treasure have been oftener wasted by a Premier whoso motto is" peace at any price" than by the more combative Conservative lender.whowas ready to fight when there was anything to fight for. Mr Gladstone is friendly to Russia; he is never tired of telling us that we have nothing to fear from Muscovite aggression, At this moment thero is a distinct renewal of the gravest symptoms that Bussia is enoroaohing on India in the neighbourhood of her North-Western frontier, We shall see how Mr Gladstone will deal with the menacing situation. The Sultan of Morocco has offered to our diplomatic representative the greatest insult possible to his intelligence, and has Btrnck a severe blow at British trade in that quarter of the world. We shall see how Mr Gladstone will meet the case, Lord Salisbury would Bend a squadron to the Sultan's principal harbour, and in a month things would be tfi statu quo. Mr Gladstone will whine about the desirableness of arbitration, And yet colonists are expected'to have "Liberal" sympathies ! Under a Liberal Government at Home, we may be pounced upoo some day by a hostile-fleet, Under ihe Conservative rigimi the colonies have always been a foremost thought when there were rumours of war,

A meeting of the Gonoral Committee of the Masterton Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held on Saturday last, when the report of the Ground Committee was considered and general business transacted.

The application for a charter for a Working Men's Cluti In Mastorton has, we understand, been refused.

A special meeting of the Eketahuna Road Board was held on Saturday to arrange a l'so loan for the Makakahi lload, Tho meeting adjourned until Monday night on account of thoro being no quorum.

The proclamation constituting Pahiatua a Borough is to take effect from September Ist. Tho Bov, Mr. Stewart, of Woodvillo, prococda to Groymoulh shortly, having received a "call" from the lattor place. The Sydney Evening News records a fight to a finish between Pettengell, formerly of Wellington, and Joe Pablo, which resulted in Pablo being knocked out in the third round.

Thirty-four thousand brown trout wore sent from the Masterton ponds on Saturday to the order of the Chief Inspector of Fisheries, New South Wales, Mr Arthur Ridd Is commencing practico as a chemist at Eketahuna, He has taken the premises belonging to Mr James Mocara,

A woman named Halse, the wife of a gardener, hanged herself at Auckland on Friday night, She had beon subject to fits of melancholy, and had been married only three years. A furious southerly galo his beon raging in Masterton for the paßt couple of days, Heavy rain has descended, which mmt havo done considerable damage in the country, The thermometer this morning registered 40, Fah,

At the close of the servioa in the Masterton Wesleyan Church last evening, the following resolution was passed :- " The congregation worshipping in the Wesleyan Church, Masterton, is of opinion that tho Weßleyan Methodist, Church Property Trust Act Amondmont Bill, introduced by the Hon. the Pre* mier, and which provides for an extension of the ministerial term, should, in tho interests of the said church, become law, and therefore prays the Hon. tho Premier to urge upon the House tho im. portance of passing the Bill." When the minister read the resolution tho congregation rose and gave its assent, Mr Michael Shannon, an old resident of the Pahiatua district, died on Thursday, Tho Pahiatua Star says that for eomo time he had not beon in good health -in fact ho had not long returned from tho Masterton Hospital; but there was nothing to indicate that death was so near up to a few minutes before he expired. He was lying down chatting after tea, and passed away as above Btated almost without warning of any kind, Shannon suffered from heart diseaso and dropsy, and as ho has been under medical treatment for these complaints, it is not likely an inquest will be held. " Mick " was well-knoifn throughout the district as a wit, and at the camp Are he would keep his mates amused tor hours by his quaint sayings. It was he who, in 1886, when the Hon. Mr Eallanco held a meeting here, advised him to pump cold water on the editor of the Star because of some remarks made about the village settlement system. Deceased, wo might say, was one of the original selectors in the Pahiatua Village Settlement, and he held the section up to the time of his death. He was a bachelor,

Thus muses a valued correspondent : That the people of Groytown aro fineweather Christians of a moit decided typo, the attendance at the religious services there yesterday dearly do« nionßtrated. Tiieir piety is of the easygoing order and must not entail too much self-sacrifice: in short, they must have a maximum of elect with a minimum of trouble. Thus, it may be surmised that on occasions when "the day is cold and wet and drear;; it rains and the wind is never weary," ohuroh has not the attractions it should possess for tjiese good people. A dance they can go to in any weather, '• It warms one so I" -and then there is tho supper, But a sermoii-Oh I it's cold comfort, indeed, Thuß the attendance in the (Jhurch of England at Groytown last night numbered exactly six persons; or, to enter into detail, it consisted of an old lady, four boys and a dog. The Weßleyanß wept two tetter, and riiado it eight—without"the The Pphyjeriaos, whom we always respect for their consistent earnestness, came out, as j psual, fop jrith a grand total of twenty. The ordinary service was in at least one instance considerably abridged, the "collection" being its most significant feature. Those who stayed away from church gained little in the long run, for they had to patiently bear for the remainder of the da; the intolerable conceit ot those who had been thero.

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