NOTES FROM OUR "SPECIAL."

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10919, 19 May 1898, Page 3

NOTES FROM OUR "SPECIAL."

(Special to tbe Hawkk's Bay Herald ) (bt telegraph,) Wellington, Wedaeiday. THE COMING SESSION. I havo made tbe following extracts from a leadlog ardole cootaloed la tbh evening's paper :~" Ualeas the Premier inooeeda [la enforcing what la currency reported to ba hla half with, to obtain the neoeemy enppllea rb qa!ckly at posilble, and then adj»mn Parliament) nntll the new balldloga ere fib for nae, a fen weeks will biioß ns to tbe opening of a new and Important boklod. We have aearohed the Ministerial utterances through and throngb, snd beyond the worthleM looal promises wantonly thrown ont to cajole the varloaa electorates we oan find nothing new, nothing creative and notbiog valuable, either to the Government or tbe people, In tbe f neoasta kdalged Id, nnlesß perhaps we except the proposed Maori land lorlilstloD, which la, we tdmlt, a move In the right dlreoiiOD, and in which tbe Premier, if his obllqalty of vision penults him to aob sincerely, sbonld receive the general aopport. Oataide this, however, and the extenßlon of the operations of tbe Land for Ssttlemeo'B Aot>, tbe Ministerial programme promisee to prove an ioelpld, •bredllke rehash of last session's Jeavlogs, Onr progressive aeml Soolalistlo Government bas come to a etanditlll. Its oon•trnotive fecnltlet, assuming for tbe moment that It has tome, have become atropMed by tbe abate of power and patronage. Id has played its last leglila* tire o.trdr, and the only remaining conns j (a to score pMnta by lee« legitimate mason, orlcue. Unless all tbe foreoasts are agreeably falsified, next seielcn promlict to he even more barren and than tbe laat."