WHAT THE AUCKLAND PAPERS SAT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5094, 30 August 1884, Page 3

WHAT THE AUCKLAND PAPERS SAT.

AUCKLAND, August 29. Both newspapers adversely criticise Sir George Grey and his party for turning round and supporting the Stout-Vogel party after helping to turn them out. The /B<ar adds :— " The work of smashing Ministries cannot go on for ever. Already, besides the old Atkinson Ministry resigned, we have had no fewer than four separate attempts at Cabinet making, and those who now put the present occupants off the Ministerial benches will incur very grave responsibilities. Most assuredly they will not be justified in doing this without making themselves perfectly j certain of what is to follow. It maybe that j misunderstanding has been a fruitful: source of mistakes in the past. The more ' reason then that these should be prevented | in future. If we are brought back to the j point whence we started a fortnight ago, .' the country will ask, and rightly ask, why j one Ministry was recklessly turned out of office to be reinstated in every essential respect the same as before ? Either a mistake was made then, or is being made now. We do not wish to prejudice acts which i have not yet been fully explained. Perhaps 1 excellent reasons are held in reserve, which j will show that the course adopted through- \ out has been a consistent one, and it will i suddenly be revealed that a coalition with the Stout-Vogel party, which was perfectly possible from the beginning, was impolitic three weeks ago, and that it is more politic now. We must confess, however, that at this moment we are unable to perceive these reasons. If it means the chances of individuals for minor offices, the country will hardly consider that a sufficient motive why the policy which has in nowise changed should first have been rejected and then accepted.