THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1528, 20 April 1882, Page 2

THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

Tuere is little new to report, and nothing of 'interest' is likely to -transpire until the Attorney- General has had an audience ot the Governor, which will take place, probably this morning. The special correspondent of the Herald writing on the subject of the -Ministers' resig'- 1 nation, says : — ' ' I reiterate what I haye asserted before on tolerably good authority :— lst. That Mr Hall's illness was the tola cause of the' break-up 'of his Government ; 2nd, That it was the cause, and uot the effect of his colleagues' resignation ; 3rd, That it was absolutely and privately > decided upon \ before. Major} Atkinson 'left Wellington! for f Auckland on the 26th March, and even before he left Dunedin for Wellington a. fortnight earlier; 4th, That "there was no 1 dissension in the Cabinet on any question of policy, the only difference relating purely to Mr Hall's pending resignation, which it was desired if possible to prevent, or , delay', in the interest of the party, biit which was in the end deliberately agreed \ to by all his colleagues, and Avas only seutin on their joint l'ecoinmendation. \ These are the t> tie facts of the case, the garbled versions so authoritatively published -notwithstanding. . , I The LyUclton Tunes on Tuesday has the following : — "According to the fitness of things, the only Government which. ought, to meet the new Parliament is the late Government of Mr Hall, or a. Government 'reconstructed on its ruins.' In that case those who "have been identified with Mr Hall's policy, or the policy of the majority of Mi- Hall's colleagues, > will meet Parliament pledged to, thai policy. In this way only can a clear field and no favor be obtained for all parties." The special; correspondent quoted above says .-—The Governor's despatches to the Home Government, about which there will be a great row at the opening of Parliament, are to be laid on the table of the House. They are said to abuse Ministers and _ reflect very seriously on the colony and colonists in general ; the native policy 'fiercely attacked, and altogether they are said to be of a most 'extraordinary character.