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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2405, 8 December 1887, Page 2

Oueat surprise was exhibited yesterday morning in Hamilton when the news became known of the defeat sustained by the Government in Committee on the Representation Act 1887 Amendment Bill. Pressure on our space prevents us commenting at length on the abominable state of a Hairs in Wellington. Public feeling, however, in this district and, as wc are informed, also in Auckland, runs very high on the scandalous waste of time and resistance to the policy of retrenchment in defiance of the expressed will of the country. People’s minds are becoming more and more unsettled, and very disquieting rumours are in the air as to the outlook before ns. Representative Government is becoming a gross delusion and a snare. The men who so lately at the hustings swore by all that is holy that they would reduce every channel of expenditure and insist on wholesale economy, are now ranged in bitter opposition to the consummation of those reforms, in the catch division on Wednesday morning no less than nine members who were returned pledged to oust the late Government and to‘Btesist in

the policy of retrenchment, voted against the Bill to reduce the memhers of the Mouse. The pernicious example shown by Sir George Grey in this question is deserving of the highest reprobation. Public meetings should be held all over the colony to protest against the misconduct of the Assembly and insist upon the public business being carried out in the best interests of the country at this very critical time.