THE NEW MINISTRY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4697, 12 September 1872, Page 3

THE NEW MINISTRY.

To the 'Editor :' Sir,— So once more that) accommodating ' old haok Provincialism; {n variably mounted by despairing Oppositions, has succeeded in. hearing his ridera triumphantly into the.Elysian fields of office. To my "mind the old Animal presents rather a queer appearance, with* an anti-provincial I head stuck on to a nondescript neck, . ! clumsily attached to a violently. provincial i iodjr^ adorned ,by a tail avariciously restlesß, but .whose political opinions no one would be 1 Hold enough to define, Whether the head has inadvertently fixed itself too firmly qn'to the body to shake itself loose therefrom, as it would wish 'hereafter, remains to 'be' pVoved. Whether the policy originated by. t[he jiate Government is wise or not is a question om which there may be a strong qifference of -opinion. 1 But, When we' Had b!e6u'and',gone and done it, there seemed to mono reasonable. q uestion as to the wisdom c f letting those men carry 'out' the scheme, vho could furnish us with the beat security that this would be done to the best of their ability., ,Now, the Vogel Ministry I think akffpfdedns the beat security that the policy would' be carried oub economically, and* if p o^aible successfully;. For this reason —that ii it faije'd tb' ey would have had no one to throw the blame on but themselves.' Their defeat f wa«. cut off j they would have hart to 'cdncfuer or die; and it augrfrs well for their fiith ip . the, ultimate success i -of i the scheme that they made so hard* fight to retaiftihe management of it. But Stafford's party, having gained control of affairs, even s ippoaing it;Ukely ; they will be able ft> work oit another man's ideas, asjwell as he could I h mself , will n*t f e,el the spur of responsibility urging them on, which.- i«\ so conduoive to the prosperity of an undeTtakinjjjj: -For if tte present oolonial policy end« disas^ou B \y 'they can and will moat' certainly say, "It's til >t our fault. We were not the originators 01 this imprudent scheme! '/In faci, we al ways told you it would fail. :. iWe did our bust j failure was inevitable/ "Therefore, for tteae and other reasons, I think the oyertl row of the late Ministry may prove a serious misfortune to the country.— l am, &c, Anybody, Howick.

\ To tbe Editor : Sir,"- 1 read in the Cross | of the lOfeh^ instant that there is some* talk -atoufe » n*w {^Superintendent for Auckland. !JjH will be a great blessing if a change should i take place, for I am quite sure we cannot, \i wo Jpicksd ithe' t whole'pr6vinc6, gat a worse* ! one than the one'<we->have'j and the sooner 1 tha province gets rid. of him the better, It is* question whd' rf wiiT be the next. Many | ofjthe old friends An'dkappbrtersof Mr. John | Williamson publicly j}tat|Lth*t "they, are so, .surprised at the, jVV.a.x .that., he ; and John 'MsLeod turned thoir coats, and Toted for St tfford's resolution, that they cannot put' |th j least confidence in either of them. As I to Reader ,,Wqod^ ; Orei«litoD, *a.nd ' Jobriny.j ! Sb eeh'abr.JQO. one can wonder: at them, for , I th i whole three-had made up their minds to" ] tv 71 the Government put," because they had ! no chanoewof/fteUihfe" a billet under the Fox i 6c yemment, • Aa^ for -Willy Swanson, he "wculd tuni "anyway the "wind bhiws for «in- ¥ e?fcyA¥foi?,poor l Ulii'kj #ben he came 6ufc^ £ob City East, and that naughty Mr. Vogel licked him, there is not the least doubt that he has been watching : a' ohince to spit out hisiipitft, and, being » parfcioular friend, he waj fproed to fol|ow Gilliei'i tap. As for

William Buckland, I have known him ever since he came to New Zealand, and w« a member with him in the Provincial Council. I always thought him—and told himih'tf was— a real blatherskite, amLl.hare norer altered my opinion of him. Now, Mr. Editor*! have heard that in 'some parts of the Sonjh they have bnrn«d some of these turncoats (in effigy), and I would not begrudge £5 to help to pay the expenses to have all those sort of characters so served who hive lent their band to a Government that will most likely bring on another war with the natives and cause more blood to be shed, as the Stafford Government did before. I am, »ir> one that likes an honest Government and a true lover of peace, and not a Government that goes in for nothing else but a billet : yet I pity poor creatures who are hard up, for I have been hard up my self. — I am, Ac, • }/. 'B: Turner. , u . :i »

To the Editor : Sir, — I saw in Monday's CBOsathat Messrs. O'Connpr^nd V^Thi^ M. #.11. s, were hanged and burnt in effigy by their constituents. 1,, only wonder that other constituencies have not in thai: or some other way expressed thoir opinion^ pf theu' representations. ■ What hasbeen'done by the members for Franklin, besides Wpiag,tQ t turn out the Ministry ? I believe, whenever ! they have voted, it has been in direct' '<S|>- ' position to the fishes of nine-tenths,of their I constituents. And why were they -put, in to represent Franklin? Merely because 'no 1 others offered themselves. Then again, look i at Auckland representatives Toting, against; |, Mr. Vogel, who has done more, for j^cjlland . since ' he has been connected with it than Mr. Stafford has done during the whole of hia political career. In fact it is pretty well known he (Mr.S.) is no friend to Auckland. Is it intended for a joke that Mr. Sheehan is going to stand for the Superinteudency of Auckland I—V ours, &c, A Franklin Votkk.