Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4426, 23 May 1893, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1893.

SECOND EDITION

Wb have great pleasure in welcoming intotho journalisticfield s new. bright, outspoken journal.publiehcdatChrisccburch, and called "Truth," All round ability is displayed in it 1 columns, and the following extract which is copied from ita Wellington letter, is the best description we have yet read of the manner in which our new political brooms do their work

Now the Und.e-.'-Secreiaries have Io;t mueh oi ihe ! ;; seuso o! responsibility a'ua hcome me;e Chief Oris leaning up:a KirMteiifo.'cvcJvibiu'j. When Minimis go away eve;j ihiij p:;ciica'ly retirr'ns a! a standstill as seen as imirediate instructions are oihaui-sd, aud when Mials.ets re, ] thL' taV.es aro p".ed h'';h with files wa'" for theji 10 go aud ttey mi-it work anu day .o to tlvou;h, Th: writing occupies Gomeiilmes from fourfi n to eighteen hoars out ot ibe tweniy-'oi Addcl to this is the'r habit-of sec'ug nearly everyone who cojics, no msticr I w frivolous tjiir mes« o e, oi leavir] a large p/opoi,ion o" thei: \isilo.'s '.o the Private Secreiari;s as former Ministers did, buaks i i on thiir work and readers it mo;e nndiroto difficult. The result is a breakdown in health, which has come to nea:ly eve:; K'nlate/. Even Mr Seadoi, l'obu:! as ho is, has tuZered, aad will undoutt:dly breakdown i! he keeps up his p.esont prt'i'ji'o. No time to <at o: sleep means no time to tliiuk, aud when Muisters turn themselves into woridcg makers ins.ead ol minaslw directors, somelbiu<; must go, two bij proiiolios as well as ihe Premie:ship, and ibe directions ot the pu>j machine ere ioo mi'ih fcr hum?i endurance, Any one o! these things would be enough to: one mau, Under the present system Mr Beddon must ol ntctssity give up one of Ha portfolios, unless he is ambitiousto figure as the central attraction at a Staio fune:a!, so that th.re Is not much likelihood o'ihe present arrangement I sting long. Co far »s that is concerned, Ministers are as much alivetot". is as anyone, and I believe myseli !f they are jeturned to tower after Ibe next ilection they will greaiiy mc Ji.'y their prac-, 1 posits e! dhect ;;mtl Govcionknt and from absolute neceisiiyforiplf-presemiion will plaee g.'eate; administrative respnsibidty on their permanent offiewj, With Mr BaUincedead, MrSeddon notfetliogstroug, Messrs McKcnzle and Caiman hoekivg themselves up every now and then (Mr McKentle wai il! and away (.on hit offiie to.' some days, only last week)— Ministers have had a serious warning and will l be careiul. Besides, tired, brak-weaiy and over worked men'camt couduti the business ol ihe'country with profit vo !l auu oreditto themselves, however willing they may lie, It is only a quel tion of time forthe present Mf-*terß," % #» ipired

to retaia office, to fill into old lines. The only member of the Cabinet who hat been able (o keep departmental work at all up to the mark, has been Mi Seddon, and be, in adminialrativo matters, is a giant, As far as we oari learn, poor Mr McKenzie's department I baa been in a. aort of hojieleßs mnddlti I ever sinco he first assumed office. Ho has worked bard, travelling about this country and making himself familiar with all portions of it; but be baa not got bis ohiei's knack ofadministration, and he will never overtake hii offici arrears as long as lie remains a Minister. The other positions in the Cabinet are Bandied with fewer responsibilities Sir Patrick Buckley will never kill himself with hard labour, Mr Reoveß can find time to miam,.nage a newspaper, and Mr Cadnmn is not a man ambitious of doing too much, The two strong personality in the' Cabinet. are, undoubtedly, Messrs Seddon and John McKenzis, and these two are learning by experience that the new methods they have introduced into the conduct of publio business aro failures. When Messrs Btddon and MoKcnzie took office, they were old as parliamentarians, but young and green as regards Ministerial duties. This greenness accounted for a good deal of the" warping " that they manifested in their early days of office. Much that was formerly urgid against them for running amuck at tbo civil service and other eccentric ties was the result of pure ignorance and inexpecienou on their part. They aro now becoming seasoned, and by the time they get turned out of office tbey will probably have learnt their business and be quite fitted to conduct public aJairs. If they last, we shall get good government from them, but *o shudder wben ire think of (be penalty the colony has paid dur'iag their ripening period.