Hawke's Bay Herald. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1893. WILL THE REWARD COME?

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9543, 1 December 1893, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Herald. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1893. WILL THE REWARD COME?

I The Premier has announced that he intends to appoint a new batch of Legislative Councillors. Whether Lord Glasgow will leod himself to the swamping of the Council remains to ba seen, but after Lord Ripon's letter on the last batch of appointments he will probably accept any advice tendered by Ministers. We shall in that event scrutinise tho list of new Councillors with some cariosity, go see how many of them were candidates At the lato general election, but retired before polling day to avoid splitting the.Government votes. It is known that such a bribe was offered to Mr Eraser, one of the Wellington candidates, but refriaed. On the other hand Mr Parsons, of Wanganni, saw no shame in offering to retire If he were nominated to a seat in the Council. Tbe Premier did not openly take the bait, bat diplomatically replied that he could not bind bis colleagues, and that the matter had not been considered in Cabioet. Anyhow, Mr Parsons is not likely to be on the "little list," as he did not yield to the pressure pat upon him to resign. Ib is expected in the Bay of Plenty that Colpnel Fraser will be "elevated" for bis complacency in retiring iv favor of Mr Kolly, Colonel Fraser has published tbe correspondence between himself and the Premier, and we are bound to say that no such promise to him appears in the lengthy telegrams from Mr Seddon. The Premier was in the position of the puzzled lover who deolared that

Mr Kelly, but tho amount of "gush" in ' his communications to Colonel Fraser is nauseous.. He loved the Colonel, it gave him "acatopain" to ask him to retire, but, pleaded Mr Seddon, who evidently did not anticipate such a sweeping majority at the polls, "desperate diseases require desperate remedies," and as Mr Kelly flatly refnsed to retire tbe gallant Colonel was implored to immolate

himself on the altar of party— which he did with a very vigorous protest. Wi'l he be among the now Councillors? Aud will others who proved equally amenable to the cogent arguments of tho persuasive Mr Seddon, but who have not published

the correspondence, also be called to the sweet repose of the Upper Chamber, with a solatium of £150 per annum, payable monthly for seven years, and a leather medal entltliug them to a free pass over the Government railways ?