PRESS COMMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13379, 30 March 1912, Page 5

PRESS COMMENTS.

CHRISTOHftICH "STAR" DUBIOUS

(Special to "The Colonist.")

Christchurch, March 29. To-night's "Star" (a Government-or-gan) says: "Mr. Buxron's appointment is rather a mystery, prnbabiy th e Prime Minister wanted to give tho Canterbury farmers a. representative, but the choice of Mr Forbes would have boon preferred by tho radicals. It is iji some respects a curiously assorted te-am that Mr. Mackenzie has got together, and we do not expect it to bo kept together in its present shape, very long. 'With so many experienced men waiting to return to olfico a re-adjustment is inevitable in the- net. dicta nt future. However, tho question of immediato interest is how for the new Ministry will •command the. support of tho House. We havo grave- doubts on the subject^ but so much dype.nds on the cl).v:r;;eter"of tlio policy submitted to the' country that it is as well to suspend judgment in tho meantime." •