The Poverty Bay Herald. AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1879.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 848, 30 July 1879, Page 2

The Poverty Bay Herald. AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1879.

Just as we were going to press yesterday evening, the telegraphic department was busily engaged in flashing the result of the No Confidence Debate to all parts of the colony. The looked-for division had taken place, and the result was much as had been predicted by our previous telegrams. The Grey Ministry had been defeated by a majority of fourteen. The friends of the people had thus been politely, but forcibly told by the people's representatives in Parliament assembled, that he was not regarded by them in the light of the fittest man to guide the destinigs of the home of their adoption. That the serfs|of New Zealand did not seek emancipation from the yoke of slavery at his hands. That the flattering unction he had laid to his soul, as being the fittest, the ablest, and the only man gifted with genius and inspired with patriotism to work out the future weal of the Colony, was merely a vague fancy engendered in his own mind by an overweening love of selfapprobation. That he had missed his mark and mistaken his vocation. In fact, if he is not so blinded by an inordinate self-conceit as to misinterprate the full significance of his present position, he must now be fully alive to the fact

that, as Premier, lie is regarded as the antipodes of the right man in the right place. The action taken by the Opposition was no straw cast to ascertain which way the wind blew ; but having gathered their resources, and measured their strength, they came' down boldly with the No Confidence Motion, and the House had expressed a decided opinion. The would-be Governor-elect of the Colony should be convinced, if he is not too thick-skinned to receive such an irhpi'ession, that, in the eyes of others at least, he is not the great and infallible being he appears to have fancied himself to be. Poor Sir George ! It would be difficult to imagine his feelings at the present moment. It is more than probable that he will make every effort, and leave no stone unturned, in his endeavour to retain his seat on the Treasury Benches. Imagining, as he does, that the Members of the House of Representatives are not really the representatives of the constituencies who elected them, Sir George Grey will doubtless briug all the influence at his command to bear, with a view to obtain a dissolution ; but if report speaks correctly, this will not be acceded to by the Governor. Numerous and vague are the rumours as to the probable composition of the new Ministry, but our telegrams to-day will .probably furnish us with something more definite on the subject.