THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2957, 27 June 1891, Page 2

THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION.

Oxc week i:, nut a long time, but it litis proved long enough to test Mr ljryce's capacity fur leadership. The most courteous man ill 11)0 Hou.su wu have always held Mr Bryce to be. That courtesy has shone through the week brightly. And in addition, wo ha vo hat! from .Mr Bryce the style of leadership worthy of the highest traditions. When Lord Granville died the otlijjr day, a lament was made for " the last of the patricians the meaning of-which was that the last great representative had paised away of the moderiiitradition of part 3' conduct. It is the conduct which never lays aside friendliness and courtesy in tho must exciting time, which never imputes evil motive without reason, which can see Rood in the other sido, nevor obstructs, and is never factious. It is cjuite a modern u'rowth ; the Parliamentarian" beforij the Uevolutiou knew nothing of it, and it was a stranger to the heated atmosphere which settled down on the House of Commons after tho Act of Settlomynt. Whether the complaint of approaching degeneracy embodied in the lament over tho death of Lord (Iranvilie, is truly prophetic or otherwise, is neither, here nor there. The poiut'of the situation for us here, at present, is that the Opposition leader has giveu signs of a capacity for leadership of the best modern kind. We congiatulate the House on that most satisfactory fact. —New Zealand Times. The appointment of Mr Bryce to the leadership of the Opposition will be acceptable to all classes of politicians. They well know that there will be no obstruction, no waste of public timo, and no stonewalling under his leadership. The free lances opposed to tho Government may indulge in such tactics, but it will bo in spite of him and with tho certainty ot Mr Hryce's disapproval, and, if the occasion seem to re quire it, of his open condemnation.—Taranaki Budget.