Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14,1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4294, 14 December 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14,1892.

Beiho the extended hue of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is TDBNUOAI

A. London correspondent of the Auoklard Weekly News has deolated that Lord Riponhas never beard anything at all about the Legislative appointment crisis in this Colony, which was referred to him for arbitration, and hints that tbe celebrated message which eent the Ballanoe Ministry into a seventh heaven of delight was fixed up between the Agent General and a olerk in the Colonial offioe. If there be .any truth in this version of tbe incident, the Government of this Colony, as well as his Excellency the Governor will feel particularly uncomfortable, Till Parliament meets the actual fads in connection with the affair are unlikely to transpire, but it will be very curious if Lord Glasgow has been snubbed by a Colonial ioffice olerk instead of by the Minister! I in Downing street, and if Mrßallance turns out to have scored his point through tho cleverness of the Agent-1 'General.

We almost begin to wonder whether , (be most noble the Marquis ot Rjpon knows that there js a colony named New Zealand in existence. He may possibly be cognisant pf a place like India, because ho orb been there, but it is qui!' l Dosß 'l'' o * or a rftmote country like'this to >' "wittuwU. local habitation and a name in u!° thoughts. An easy-going statesmau of hid etanjjing might be tempted to leave the care'of small and unimportant colonies to some weiUinfoi'ingd clerk jn bis CffiP": who. if be be not very well versed in the home po!}% pf& place like flew Zealand is at .least acquainted with its AgentGeneral, and can avail himsalf of hip guidance. Jt }B perhaps expecting too much far Lord jftinon Jp interest himself in pur affairs, might almost as -*il fjpep't pereppal ajtentjon I? 1 " ~ ■"'wtoi is supposed I from Mr ut. "«d attention to Ireto give his undiviui... • -i«i land. No doubt tho Colons.

taryiß very muoh absorbed in the Irish Question, 100, and-from old associations is interested iu India, Tbe weal or woe of somo score of troublesome colonies which be has never seen and only heard of, is very unlikely to trouble him muoh.' A youthful Cabinet Minister, witii an unexhausted stock of energy, might ', possibly go in : for bard work in the

Colonial Office, but an elderly magnate like the Ma/qds would be apt to take things easily. However, there jseems to be a clever man.somewhero in the Colonial Office, who, liko the Clerk depioted in: one. of Anthony TrollopeV novels, patronised Governors a little, put th'era right when they weat wrong, and smoothed their pathß when they were troubled or perplexed. If it were possible to get lit a Marquis of Bipon, it would, no doubt, be a comfort to obtain bis views on the appointment of Legislative Counoiilors, but we are unlikely to reach as far as even his Piivate Secretary. Let us hope that the Clerk who deoides our destinies, understands his business.