His Colleagues.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7079, 3 February 1891, Page 2

His Colleagues.

Mr Buckley, as the leader of the Upper House in the Stout- Vogel combination, was the natural choice of the Party : as Attorney-General as well as Colonial Secretary, he is in the right places. Mr W. P. Reeves as the leader of the Liberal party in Canterbury, to whose influence aud generalship the striking victory of the party in thiß part of tho country was mainly due, had claims which no Premier could dream of passing over — not that Mr B&llance did dream for a moment of doing without his young lieutenant. Mr Seddon is another whose services to the Party could not have been overlooked any more than his talents could be done without. Mr Seddon has been a consistent Liberal ever since the Liberal Party was formed by Sir George Grey. It was during Sir George's administration that he went into Parliament, and there he has been ever Bince, faithful to his first principles of faith. He is one of the strongest men in the House, and he knows more about mining and the requirements of the miners than any other man in the House. Mr M'Kenzie is the champion of a Liberal Land Law, the beau ideal in some respects of a country representative, ono who has held every office from Road Board Secretary to Chairman of County Council, who has served the people of his district impartially from the Bench as J.P., and in tho same manner from the Property tax office, where he has valued their properties as Assessor. Such a man commends tlie Government to every country district in Now Zealand. No more sturdily honest man breathes in the world. Mr Ward docs the same for the Government with the commercial interest. A veteran member of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce and the Bluff Harbour Board, one of the largest exporters of produce in the country, a most accurate, as wall as honourable commercial man, the choice of Mr "Ward reflects great credit on the Government. There is on tho Treasury Benches knowledge of local government, of land administration, of Native affairs, of tho relations between labour and capital, of commerce in all its branches, of finance. The country ha 3no need to be disquieted.