The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1879.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 832, 11 July 1879, Page 2

The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1879.

Parliament opens this afternoon in due form by Commissioners, when it will adjourn till Tuesday. We learn that Sir "William Fox, if he does not consent to lead the Opposition, will still be a bitter opponent to the Grey Ministry, and will, in the_ matter of Cabinet proceedings, make some curious disclosures; for Ministers have been so divided, that what has transpired in Council, with closed doors, lias invariably oozed from the lips of one or other of offended and insulted Ministers. It is reported in the Wellington Chronicle, and said to be

on good authority, that there will be very little likelihood of the Ministry obtaining the right of appealing to the country in the event of defeat in the House on any question of administration or general policy. Sir Hercules Robinson, although perfectly courteous and friendly with his advisers, has made it no secret that he entirely disapproves of the policy as enunciated by Ministers. He has no sympathy with what are known as liberal measures. In Council he has told Ministers as much, and this in the plainest of terms. They will, therefore, have nothing to expect from him on the ground of sympathy, and Sir HERCULEs's,objections to dissolutions are well-known. His Excellency, it is stated by the Lyttelton Times, generally a very well informed journal, expressed nmoh regret at the Premier soaking a showman of himself in his stumping tours through the colony. He considers the act quite unconstitutional, to say nothing of its being highly derogatory to the office of Prime Minister. The Governor thinks that an appeal to the country just now would be untimely, inasimich that people have been soiled away by the promises of the PrStnier and the Native Minister, that time should be allowed for their fulfilment. If Sir George Grey can carry his measures, well and good. If not, then it is a fair presumption that the people do not consider them necessaiy as shown through the votes of the Representatives. The New Zealander, a Government organ, also is informed that the present Parliament is to work out its destiny, and that there will be no dissolution unless the cry comes from the country in the place of a demand from Ministers. Sir George Grey nas undertaken to deliver the Financial Statement, and propose a scheme for the prosecution of a large loan. This scheme is being worked out by Mr. Moss, ready to p'ace in the hands of Sir George Grey. But Mr. Moss, although very able and clever, and undoubtedly honest, is a visionary of the highest order hardly surpassed by the Premier himself. If there be no dissolution, which it now seems is likely to prove the case, the Session promises to be a stormy and protracted one j a long political war from beginning to end, and no real legislation.