MINISTERS' CANDID FRIEND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2329, 14 June 1887, Page 2

MINISTERS' CANDID FRIEND.

The Wellington Post of last Friday, referring to the prorogation says, "The career of the present Parliament has not been a very glorious or eventful one. It began in confusion, and its first few days \yitnessed three Ministries in power in most rapid succession, before a fourth was found which was able to proceed with public business. That Ministry has remained in office throughout the Parliament, but has so managed affairs as to alienate the support of many who desired to be its friends, and it lias now to appeal to the country smarting under a series of defeats of tile most humiliating kind. We have never before known a Ministry so slighted and snubbed as the present one' has been. The present session and the general verdict undoubtedly is that they well deserved the treatment they experienced. The few additional months of inglorious power which they have secured will, we should imagine, prove but poor compensation for the indignities to which they have been subjected." The article concludes , —" As to the Premier, it is impossible to deny he has, as a party leader, proved a failure, and by his injudicious actions greatly shaken the confidence so generally reposed by him when" he took; office. If he had abstained from attempting to enforce a policy pf protection on the House and country they would on their general administration have been able, we think, to have secured a favourable verdict from the people, and would probably continue to command a majority throughout the session. It is upon the rock of Protection they have been wrecked, an'd they will find it affords them no firm foothold when they go to the country."