THE STATE OF AFFAIRS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 931, 22 October 1879, Page 2

THE STATE OF AFFAIRS.

The Gitey Ministry has brought the country to the Brink of bankruptcy, but they are' fiot content to leave it there. The two members of the Cabinet who ars mainly responsible for the dangerous position are making frantic efforts to' regain possession of the reins of Government. The probable result of theirsuccess will be the capsizing of the state coach into, the abyss of ruin towards %hich"they Have been^o^apldlyltßvTnT it. Three yeayf of Qrey dowrnment has resulted m a deficiency of nearly a million,, and as their organ, the HwdUt. "puts it," there is only a fifth>f.,the five million loan available, and' -for the sake of securing this little . fish for his Otago, theispoilt child* of ,&e* GofohJ, Macandrew, votes against Triennial Parliaments, and brings the business of the country to a dead lock, m which praiseworthy work he is assisted by the Aucklandjnembew led by the ■• apolitical outcast " Sir George Grey ■■ ■• The AucYland " phoolanx tt are seeniuigly quite content that Otago should have the solitary million. to complete her railway system, as the morsel wonT go round, and; there is ; no prospect of "taore" perhaps it w|ll be as well to nnish the Otagan lines properly. Auckland has stm ; King Ta^hiap- and to fall back upon for her railway to Taranaki, the North can make shift with bullocks for another thirty years, 'the bloated land sharks will manage to keep S? the supply of Btock, and Sir George rey may possibly induce the. Homo Government to- take f -upV the Th'dmW Valley Railway .for the. purpose of finding employment for a few thousands o£ the starving serfs of old* lreland. *<-WHe%we come to look' at it, again, the prospect is really not so gloomy as it appears at first sight. Auckland has: -a great future before her, and she can afford to indulge the old man with the use of the Auckland phalanx a whileTonger. ; *** c^* The outcast is now m his element,' he cannot rule the roost himself, but he will take good care that nohody^elsep does, and will continue to kefe6 tn% country m hot water for • some- time to come, and never miss an opportunity *xtf havmga;«-goih' > 'at6he Qoy^pr. Sir Hercjifes might just as weir have diet ;his fate at' < nee, and not granted Sir George a dissolution, there was ho avoiding ttie inpitsle; jYGrefcs -whole life has been spent m quarrelling^ with some one or other, and before all is over we fully expect to.see hhn rhaWCi row with his devoted phalanx. " ' , ; T^e jGrey party ;a»&;; he^Br iirejd of harping about the continuous "ministry, bu * 1 . ? hara fNM9 see ndthuitf wi^ngl',^^dtuiuousvin leplacing Grey with' VMacandraw, and giving Sheehananb^er; lease ; pf ; power* as Native. Minister., . The . poMcal situation is most; uasatisfaccory. both parties are so eVeirfy balanced and so bitterly hostiletliat' it; is" utterly hope, fess; to. expeotitha£se oqantry; w^ derive any benefit fjrpm the -ParKament "as at present constituted," the only solution -of 'the difficulty appears : to us to be a dissolution and atiother' to the country, After tlie Hall Minis&y have informed the Colony .as!, to the exact state of affairs, the constituentiei will be better, able to decide whioh party are the most fitted to Govern the country.— -Auckland Free Lance, • . 4 ■ - ■■■ .j'. w<rV ■.-i'.U"';-