Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1895. THREE BUNCHES OF CARROTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5109, 22 August 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1895. THREE BUNCHES OF CARROTS

It is said that Ministers have in daily use with their faithful followers, no less than threo bunches of carrots. The lirst is the nowunnamed—portfolio, which is to bo instituted at the tail end of the session. Let us call it, for the sake of distinction, the portfolio of Banquets. Then the Minister of Lands is expected lo resign, and his place has to bo lilled as soon as the session is over. In the third place it is expected that either Mr Scddon or Mr Beeves will be made an AgentGeneral, and hero is another vacant portfolio looming on the political horizon. Ministers therefore are dangling 110 less than three portfolios before the longing eyes of their supporters. Mi and every one of these said supporters has but one ungratilied wish, and that is for a portfolio, and it follows therefore, that till the end of this session, 'the Government has the whip hand of its followers. There was a pretence, ut very sorry pretence, of mutiny tlio other day, over the tariff, but how did it end ? The Ministry called the mutineers together and these bold blatant insurgents went down on fheij' knees and passed a vote of conlidonee jn the Government. Now the aamo gay rovers are claiming a free hand to scrunch up the Bank of New Zealand but the three bunches of earrots are still available and Ministers have only to giye them a shako for their turbulent followers lo again fall into lines. Some of our contemporaries seem to think that tlio Government may go 100 far with its faithful followers and that the latter after some rebuff may turn on tlio foot that has kicked them and do some mischief But as long as the threo portfolios remain open, thera is littlefear of this. To obtain ono of them the best Liberal in the crowd would make any sacrifice. Mr Scddon lias still the whip-1 hand, and can make his men toe the line whenever ho wants them to come up to the mark,