The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1879.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 868, 20 August 1879, Page 2

The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1879.

Could we foresee the result of the present elections generally, we should be largely influenced in our choice of a candidate. It would be sheer folly to return an Opposition man if the result of the present elections place the Ministry as before in a majority, and we would request any of our readers who may contemplate voting for Captain Morris to well ponder what we are about to say befove doing so. To begin with, there is the fact that all his belongings and proclivities are of the other end of the electorate ; as in the past so in the future, either he will .centre his energies on making himself moi'e useful to his party than to his constituents ; or, if he does think of his constituency, he will consider them to be the majority at his own district, Tauranga, and he will probably think, as he has before said : " What can you expect from mei I have not to thank you for my election." But the most important subject for consideration is this— whether the Ministry find themselves in a majority or in a minority, it is quite certain that the elements of the

present Ministry ■will, to a very large extent, compose the next. We feel certain that the Native Minister, the Minister for Public Works, Mr. Ballance, Mr. Stout, and one or two others, would form an exeedingly strong Ministry. We would therefore counsel the desirability of returning a man who will not be antagonistic to them. It is very far from our intention to urge the return of a " Greyite," for we look on Sir George Grey as" the weak point and stumbling block of the Government ; iudeed we are astonished that his colleagues have allowed him to get them into their present position. We look on Sir George Grey as a impracticable autocrat, no matter what his intentions may be ; and the next Ministry must be content to reject him, for retain him they cannot. Certain as it is that Sir Geroge must go, so it is eqally certain that 'the new Ministry must be formed from the present to a great extent. Therefore, we strongly urge our electors to return a' man who will be in accord with those who will under any circumstances be in power 'after Parliament meets, and who will assist in furthering that policy which will be administered from the Liberal platform, but not the liberal platform to which Captain Morris refers.