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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4078, 16 August 1884, Page 2

The new Government (says the Wanganui Chronicle) has been formed. The first thing that strikes one about it is that it is terribly one-sided. If it stands any time it may bo expected that tho South Island will get its full share—and a little more than its share —of whatever public expenditure may bo going. The only North Island man witli a fortfolio at present is Mr Ballanco, and his special duty is to look after tho natives. One portfolio is kept open, with which it is hoped to sweeten Auckland. Otago should come out right, with Mr Stout as Premier and Attorney-General, and Mr Macandrcw as Minister of Lands and Mines; while Canterbury, which place has been howling about its grain rates, and claiming to have a few more millions spent on some kinds of public works within its borders, should bo well looked after, with Sir Julius Vogcl as Colonial Treasurer and Postmaster-general, and with a status at Government House above that of the Premier ; with Mr Richardson in charge of Public Works ; and with Mr Montgomery holding the portfolios of Colonial Secretary and Minister of Education. But that is not all. The railways in the North and South Islands are to bo put under separate boards of management, and it has been arranged that Mr Richardson is shortly to resign, and become president of tho South Island Railway Board. This is a pretty little arrangement, by which the South, having | already had the advantage of this island in the matter of railway construction, will also get the better of us in tho matter of tho rates to bo charged. Another purpose it will servo will be to make room for another Canterbury office-seeker.