THE POLITigAL RECOVERY.^ y ,

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1531, 27 April 1882, Page 3

THE POLITigAL RECOVERY.^ y ,

SjH,—! The <?ojony is to, be congratulated upoii .events .announced in your telegraina a^ the reguM; of Sir George' 'Grey's visjft Vft Wellington, though 1 have no douto ft Jp ' not as .anticipated, by that wUy diplomatist, That Sir George Grey ever could haye'forined a Ministry which wfluliil have' commanded the confidence, lejTialenethe^remect of the Hou^e for one week after ( its meeting^ few reasonable men ( will' imagine for a' rootoent; still it is possible that "drowning men catch at straws,"' and the fact pt there being forty, new members no doubt led imfito think tliere was a chance, backed ugby the, hope of having a loan to disburse for the benefit of the people of New Zealand. Vain' hope. With a recollection of the financial statement' in the first session of '79. That document, remarkable for its lucidity, and replete with°*\iriformation relating both to the pasted future '< financial- position of the colony, was disowned by its author so far "that 'it does not find * •• a place ih the pages of Hunstad, nor 'yet in the .appendices to the journals of the House. The ' capitalists of i( England would be both to intrust their money again' to' tna care of a gentlemen, who having first removed his Treasurer, if not by the argumentum ail y posteriori, by the next thing ,to it, insisted upou taking the Treasury himself, and though having his Native Minister ' beside him, to jog his memory, made a statement so puerile and displaying such utter ignorance of the position of the colony, that the scene, pitiable as it was to behold, would have been ludicrous if it were not' for the very serious ' consequences involved. Is it likely that the prospect of New Zealand asking for another loan would not have recalled the recollection of the financial incapacity and dependence upon luck which marked the previous regime ? and if the" loan had been subscribed, probably, it would have been on terms ruinous to the ctedit of the colony, and disastrous to the further prosecution of Public Works. We in the North Island at least have too deep an interest in that subject to allow it to bo made the sport of political parties, and must make our first care to see that 119 aide wind diverts our attention from the great object of continuing the railway through from Te Awamutu until the communication is completed with the capital. The names which have been suggested as those of the probable new ministers, are painful evidences of the weakness of the so-called Liberal party, more correctly named the Grey party. The astute member for " Otago general " would no doubt be to the foie if there was a reasonable chance of a loan, and of carrying out his grand project of starting a line of steam communication from Dunedin to* England ; and by judicious manipulation of the former in tC new House, the latter might be carried. The honest' and independent member for AkSroa is deficient in the arts of diplomacy, jbhe power />f language to conceal thojight* 'of intentions, and would be turned into ridicule if h'c were foolish enough to take a seat on the Ministerial Benches.' As for the member for tlie Dunstan, I sincerely hope the House is not demoralised enough yet, even under a Grey dispensation, to permit such a degradation of the position of a Minister. Be Lap tour, no doubt an honest and able member, has too much of the bitterness of party spirit to devote himself mainly to the administration of any department of Government, w,hile Stout's elevation to the Council for, the purpose of making him Attorney-General would be entirely foreign to his principle, ultra-Liberal as he seems to be, attaining power by such means with the certain knowledge that he could have reached the same position by more legitimate means as a member of the House, if he had been desirous of re-entering politics, besides abundantly gifted, as he no doubt is, with thefortUrr in re, 'he is at times as decidedly deficient in 'the nuavitor in modo. As for Whitmore again gracing the Treasury Benches, I should think his chances arc infinitesimal to a degree. The mention of the name of Downie Stewart must have been what Atenms Ward calls a "goak,,' though how it is that the name of the member for Parnell, that faithful shadow of the ' ex-Premier, was ' not ' included in the phalanx is si mystery. A paragraph has appeared purporting to give the substance of a reply from Earl Kimberly to Sir Arthur Gordon, in answer to his application to be relieved from the Government of this colony. It seems hardly probable that any member of an English Liberal Ministry would send a reply of such a nature, insulting t as it is to the representative institutions of this colony. If Earl Kimberly did express each sentiments there is further proof that Liberal may be a" 110 m tic plume in other parts of the world besides New Zealaud. A anore reasonable view would be that S'r Arthur, finding by the outspoken comments of the colonial press that lie was mistaken in imagining himself still the Governor of a Crown colony, thought it desirable to make the retreat from an untenable position in the most dignified manner possible, and save the otherwise necessary result of being recalled, for it is hard to conceive it possible that the present Home Government would support a Governor who shewed such a disregard for the first principles of constitutional Government. Howevfer< let us be thankful that he has been • " wise in tinie,'" and ' that the present era of steady , progress throughout the colony is not to be jiitei;upted.— l am, &c, "•' '' 1-. . *»i Edward G. McMinn. 'jgfaHKtyd/jend' April, lBB2. 0' '. ■— — ■ iii . ■ r

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