SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4372, 18 March 1893, Page 2

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1893.

According to our Wellington correspondent, wboie usually very accurate in bis statements, Opposition members ore a'little wild that Mr Rolleston should deem it his duty to go about the country makingplalform speeches. This dear goodmanwasnever intended by nature to excite enthusiasm at a publio meeting, especially in a hostile political territory, He has the courage to attempt the feat, because he believes that his position requires him to stand in the forefront of the battle, and during the recess this means warfaro on the platform, but he is too ponderous for this soft of work, and somewhat resembles the military elephanl who has to be kept off the battlofleld lest he injure friends as well as foes. Mr Eolleston is one of those staid unimpassioned politi* cians whom every one respects, but whoni no one fears, and at the present time he js!' not the man for fjalway." He belongs to a highly respectable and trustworthy class of politicians which, wo fear, has had its day. If we were to look for pure minded, high minded, high Boulod, unselfish politicians we should at once turn to men like Mr Bryce, Sir John Hall, and Mr Bolleston, but the House which once honoured such men with respeot and confidence, iB not the House of the present day, The man who leads it in the last decade of the nineteenth century must be of coarser fibre than the chiefs of former days. The position that suoh men must now' take in our Legislative Assembly is rather that of counsellors than leaders, They are admirable types of the line' fild English gentlemen who haye settled in Sew Zealand, Mr Rpllestop for example ppssesgeß a culture which oan hardly be acquired in {his Polony, and he displays fully < that keep ln#PJivß sense of'honour ! which is so characteristic of the tradj, j tional English gentleman, But such j wen do uot altogether b&rmoniiSQ with' •

Ibe new generation of oolooials, whose obaraoteristica ate more ol a rough and 'ready bind, Ifcf ß ouly the question ofafew yenrs for young Now Zealanders to take politics in hand in much the snnie manner as they go in : for racing and football, and when they do, they will curry all before them.