The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1889.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2652, 11 July 1889, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1889.

Equal and exact justice, to all men, Of whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political.

Tni-; voluminous wordy warfare, known as tits Fisher Correspondenco, between the Premier and his late colleague, Mr George Fisher, has been published in, nxlmi-to in the New Zealand Times. A careful perusal of the mass of personalities and recriminations impresses on the mind of the reader that Mr Pisher has exposed his unfitness for the high ofiico of a Minister of the Crown, and that he has indefinitely injured his political career. To see. him in the character presented by his own letters, added to the tremendous indictment against him by the Premier, is disappointing to those who had been following Mr Eisner's public life, and, had been placing hopes in him as a man who could be confidently entrusted with the alruirs of the country. The correspondence exposes to view the inner workings of the Cabinet, which, if we accept some of Mr Fisher's statements, have been distinguished by jealousies, ill-feeling, suspicions and intrigues not at all desirable in a Ministry who have been charged with such large responsibilities at a very critical period of the colony's progress. It would have been better for the Premier, and more conservative of the dignity of the colony, had he avoided entering into the public controversy beyond the mere official formula necessary to cause the retirement of a colleague in whom he had lost confidence. The dispute would have been better left for explanation in Parliament, without furnishing so much wholesale and injurious food for gossip and scandal. At the stmo time, there is no denying the fact that Sir Harry Atkinson has made out a case against the late Minister of Education which the latter has failed to break- down, in his letter of the oxtraordiuaiy length of twelve solid columns. Mr Fisher's "you're another " style of meeting the accusations of the Premier is very weak. The episode is, also, very regrettable, for the sake of the high character and tone we desire to see associated with our leading public men, and it is one which all must hope to see rarely, if ever, repeated.