Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1894. THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4858, 23 October 1894, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1894. THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN.

, To-day the curtain falls 011 the Parliamentary stage of 1894. The 1 melancholy melodrama and the s screaming farce are played out to ' the bitter end, and the jaded mid worn-out actors retire as sadder—and we devoutly hope—as wiser men. In the dull days of former " times, it used to be said "things are going to mend because the session is about to open." The formula is altered, and it now runs ''things aro going to mend because the senf sion is about to close." Humanly " speaking, our Parliamentary Mitrailleuse will be silent for the next seven or eight months, and will no [ longer belch forth ruin and misfortune to the peoplo of this colony. The plague for a time is stayed, and we may fairly hope that shattered industries may have a chance to recover, The session has been profitable to no one, and disastrous to all. The colony staggers out of it with a new load of debt, and a certain prospect of increased taxation. Ministers come out scotched but not killed, with some miserable remnants of the bundle of measures which they threw on the floor of the s House. The old-clothes-man of the '■ Cabinet apparently picked up most of them in the union rag-pickers, and they were brought before the House without being either cleansed, renovated or sorted. Many of them doubtless, were never intendedtobepassed, but wero simply put up to fool Government supporters. The Bills indeed, served little purpose but tc danglo as a bait for certain members who could only be kept inarching straight on Government lines to the l' close of the session by such miser- )' able means.. Members will come ' away from the session wondering what on earth they are to say to their constituents. How they arc d to explain that tho Licensing Bill oi the Midland IWlwny Bill lias fallen through. The fault of the abortive 5 legislation this session cannot be put on the shoulders of tho Opposition, for the Opposition has been numerically too weak to stop tho Seddouiau march. It has been tho Seddouiau march itself that has been at'fault, The party has been all sixes t and sevens throughout the session, and though it could usually he depended upon to vote as it was told, it was an unhappy family. The Liberal party has got leisure, however, now to manufactuie a new set of Libeial > pnneiples to leplace the old lot v> Inch have been w oin out and broken up m tho lato session Possibly if may decido to am its politics foi the 0 futuio without lefeienco to pnnci pies, iib the latter have only ten a . souiceof tiouble to it m tko past,

;Cb, Hornblow has given notice to move that a former offer of Mr A. » W, Kenall to supply Lincoln Road,-1 Hall Street, Queen Street, Church ' j l . Street, Charles Street, Miriam Street, I \ and Worksop Road with a stream of ] wator from Mb mill lead be re-con- : j sidered, This offer was mado by Mr A. W; Kenall when he was a candi- t date for the Mayoralty, and was i rejected by the ratepayers, tho voting i on that occassion being G. Heron, c 152, and'A. W. Eenall, 81. It is S soniowhat singular that this offer ' should bo used for election purposes a second time. On the face of it and j on its past record it is evidently one that would not be acceptable to the ratepayers. Is is obviously revived J for electioneering purposes only. < It will possibly secure MrHornblow i tho support of Mr Benall and his ' friends in the Mayoral contest next 1 month, but it cannotserve any other object, ' ] ( ' , i ________