The Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1895. THE COMING SESSION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5052, 15 June 1895, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1895. THE COMING SESSION.

♦ Nkxt Ifriday the Government again face the representatives of the people, and its supporters claim it is now in a stronger position thiiu ever. " Is that possible ?" If it be so strong, it could afford to dispense with the proposed Ward jubilee and could fling the Scddon guineas, a thousand in number, to tho winds or to the unemployed. • It has postponed the meeting of Parliament | till the last possible moment, and wo scarcely believe that it meets it undismayed. Even popular Governments do not Inst many years in '■ New Zealand, and this may bo the last session in which the present Ministry will lead the House, The leading measures of the session are expected to be the Tariff Bill, tho Licensing Bill, and the Local Government Bill As yet, we know not the object of the Government in re-adjusting tlie tariff unless it be to increase the revenue and stimulate local manufactures by high protective duties, ; .or in other words, to increase the cost ot living in this Colony. .The Liccusintf Bill - fill not amount, to much'if tho Government, as on a former occasion, run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. It will be a sort of J stock piece which will be put on the boards to fill up gaps or to block other legislature which may in the opinion of the Government bo undesirable, The Local Government Bill will bo i\ie piece de resistance in which town will bo arrayed against country. There is much to be said in favour of consolidating local bodies, but the present period of depression is not altogether favourablo to the process, The immediate effect of it must he to inorease I the number of those who are out of | employment.

a. dancing bouse. This is unfair, I because a dancing house is neither needed nor demanded. The second objeotion is that it is wrong in principle, to pledge the revenue of the Trust. Why didnotthoobjectors discover this, twolvo months ago, when the revonue of the Trust for the present year, was pledged to the extent of fifty pounds, for the Park Grandstand—another work of utility? It is. improbable that the Trust can ever carry out a project of any magnitude, without some pledging of its income, and if the present proposal hud been for tho erection of a Technical School, we do not believe that the advocates of tho principle of maintaining the revenue unpledged, would have raised a single objection.