Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4241, 12 October 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1892.

Brno the extended title or the Waikabam Daily, with which it is IDENTIOAL,

Sir P. A, Buckley baa never during his long political career Wen very conspicuous either for ability or for industry. Still be Las been a very ustrful member of his party, because he possesses a certain amount of sagacity if he lacks geniun, and he has at his command certain graces of manner in which bis colleagues are very deficient. He can do the ornamental work on behalf of the Cabinet with a fair amount ol success, and can recoivo distinguished visitors without embarrassment, His long experience in public matters, too, enables him to give the Cabinet useful guidance, and if, as leader of the Council, ho is a little superficial, be manages by bis tact to display a fair degree of sufficiency, Occasionally, too, he is outspoken, and in the course of a recent dnbato ho nmdo one or two remarks wbioh some of his radioal colleagues would have liked him to have left unsaid, Referring to the courso taken by the Legislative [Council on the Land Bill be declared

In the first place 1 would like to say that I yield to no man in my admiration for tho teal and onergy of the Council, the amount of work which it performs, and the attention it pay to every measure that is put before it, And if any one outride the Council abuses it I may say that I am no party to anything of the kind, and no frioud of any one who takes such a course sb that, because I have never known the Council to flinch from the dischargo of any duty that it has been called on to perform, This is n valuable testimony, coming as it doe» from a colleague of Messrs Ballance, Beddon, and McKenzie,and it also posspsses tho merit of being perfectly just and acouratp, In the Lower House party strife, whoever may be in power, always results in crude legislation, It is rarely that a creditable bill is turned out by the popular chamber and it is not till measures reach the Upper House that thoy receive that dispaßsionato attention, that critical analysis, which is indispensable to efficient legislation. In the Legislative Council there is but little party feeling and in nine cases out of ten a measure is discussed on its merits and not even Sir P. A, Buckley can tell how members will vote. The Upper House is zealous to turn out good work, the Lower House to please Trades Unions or to work points for members of the right color, The Upper House is distinguished for the amount of work, real work, which it performs, the Lower House is noted for the amount of talk wbioh it gets through. Tho Upper House gives its undivided attention to every measure which comeß before it, the Lower House is content in the main to follow the lead of the Government and vote aB it is told by the party whips, The Upper Houße is actuated by a sense of duty, the Lower House is impelled by a sense of self-interest and self-preservation, The Colony owes much more to the Legislative Council than it does to the Boubb of Representatives ppd it is satisfactory to be able to adducatbegvidence of a liberal of Sir P. A. Buckley's type, to prove that this muok maligned body ia en titled to the confidence and even the gratitude of the Colony. •