THE CRISIS IN NEW SOUTH WALES

Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 18 January 1889, Page 2

THE CRISIS IN NEW SOUTH WALES

Sir Henry Parkes will probably be somewhat surprised and disappointed at the result of the recent Parliamentary crisis. Apparently he courted defeat in the first instance for the purpose of giving his party a practical lesson in discipline. He thought that his resignation would rally and consolidate them, and that after their being duly lectured he would, as representing the majority in the House, easily regain power. Nothing was probably further from his thoughts than any prolonged exclusion from office. Accordingly, when Mr. Dibbs formed his Ministry it was st once met with an emphatic vote of noconfidence in the extremely unpleasant form of a refusal of supplies. Mr. Dibbs, however, was not to be so easily baulked, and he has applied to the Governor for permission to appeal to the people. Lord Carrington has very properly granted this. The new Ministry has been condemned unheard and without being afforded a reasonable opportunity of enunciating a policy bofore Parliament. Undor these ciroumstances it has a clear constitutional right to lay its policy before the people and to appeal to them for a decisive verdict. As Mr. Dibbs represents the party of Protection, we cannot of course hope that his appeal will bo successful, but wa are by no means sorry that Sir Henry Parkes has met with a check. Ho has long been far too bounceable.