The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 663, 19 August 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and exact |ustico to «H man, Ot whtteTei >ut<: or peieuiiion, religious or political • # * • # Here shall the Trent th« PEorLc's right luainUin. Unawert by mflucncß and unl)ribed by Rain.

SATURDAY AUGUST 19 187(5.

Thk division og th« Separation Resolutions hrti resulted, as wai predicted by this journal a fortnight ago, in a majority of fifteen a#ain«t them. And now, we ask, whatn*xt? Will the Houso pro ceed to the practical business of the country, or will it allow ita time to be wasted in the further discassion of questions winch can only b« productive of obstrnstiveness 1 The Assembly met for the despatch of business on the 16th of June. On the lGth Au~nst, when the division took place, exactly two mouths to a day has b^en taken up in matters of a pm«ly party character, if we

«\copt the dobnto upon tlie Land Fund resolutions, worthy not only of u better Lite, but of inoio CJiui. dotation tlian they received from either hide of tho House. The com menceinent of fchp se^nm saw the Opposition flouuJt'iii^ in the lu.izes of the Pi.iko Sw^mp, and thoy scarcely seem yt-t to have found (.heir feet on solid ground. Twothirds of the session hay wen fritterel away, -uid as yet ihe very work for winch the several mewbeus weie •peculiy returned, the framing of a new constitution to succeed that which probably in another month will have expired by effluxion of time, has not been reitllyconinienced. And who is to blame for this? Certainly not tho GoYernraent. There never was perhaps a besiion in which they were earlier in the field with their policy than the present one. The financial statement was brought down on tho 4th of July, and it contains the entire programme and financial policy of the Government; jet, thoug-h we are told by one member of the Opposi tiou that they are corrupt and renal; by another, that Sir Julius Vogel by a stroke of his pen has turned oue million into two, or two millions into one, we forget which and it is of little cmsoqu»>nce, jot still the Statement lies on the t ible of tho House, a gauntlet which the Opposition as yet has not dared to take up. We are no apologists of the Government, but this we must say, that it cannot be laid lit their door thttt the session has been fruitlessly ■pent. From the 4th of last month until now they have b«en prepared to go on with the Government business, bufe members have occupied themselves with every other possible kind of matter extraneous to the real question at issue. If, however, it is to become an established custom in the New Zealand Parliament that, unlike the performances on another stage, the proceedings are to begin always with a farce and end with the more sorious portion of the performance we may, perhaps on the p*vfc of tho audience, be permitted to suggest that the farce this session has been tndiously long, and,that the sooner the curtain falls, and rises again upon the real work of the actors on our political stage, the battet- will it be for the Colony.