The Evening Mail. MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1877.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 450, 8 October 1877, Page 2

The Evening Mail. MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1877.

So much has been written on the political situation that people are about getting tired of the subject. Bat we cannot refriiu from once nwve reverting to the question if only for the purpose of calling attention to a special Parliamentary report which we clipped from the Dunedin (•tar and inserted in Thursday evening's issue. It is too good to be lost, especially when taken into consideration the source from whence it cauio. The Star has always accorded the most unqualified support to the Government. It mattered not Low glaring the misdeeds of the present Ministi'y, the countenance of the Star was a moral certainty. Encouraged by the knowledge that the power they wielded would enable them to command the columns of a certain number of newspapers throughout the Colony, the Ministry have perpetrated deeds hitherto unparalleled in the annals of the Government. of this country. They have overshot the mark, and even the Star, probably realising the fact that there is a limit beyond which public endurance cannot go, began to fear that their conduct might afftct the popularity of their paper, although, as an advertising medium, it might be valuable to the people of Dunedin. It is fortunate that the Star occupies no important journalistic position in the Colon}', or it would long since have led the people of this Colony to be. satisfied with a corrupt Government, whose legislation could only have had the effect of not only retarding our present progress, but of leading the Colony into a condition that could not have been repaired by ages of good Government. The information we have previously referred to as having appeared in our Thursday evening's issue, was in reference to the importunity of an impecunious supporter of the Government, who applied for the loan of five pounds from a member of the Ministry just at a critical moment —at a time when, from his downy seat, a "downey" individual would be most likely to allow his benevolence to have full play. Pauperism is rampant in our very Parliament, what then can be expected of the people. Tae beggar is said to be an Otago representative. Heaven help Otago, for she will need it with such traitors in the camp. Tins is the mysterious power that lias been glueing ministerial gentlemen to their seats, and this is how a majority was obtained for the Government on the Walca Maori question. The existence of the present Ministry literally depends j upon the toss of a sixpence. j