The Waikato Argus. CEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1897.

Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 112, 27 March 1897, Page 2

The Waikato Argus. CEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1897.

The Premier is to go Home. Wo always thought he would. He is not the first public man who, like the young lady at her first party, when asked to play, thinks to attract notice and add to her importance by being coy, and then dashes off the particular piece she has been studiously practising for some weeks previously. We think the right decision his been arrived at, it would have been a disgrace to New Zealand had she through her Premier east a slight upon Her Majesty, and have held tho unique

position of being the only self-go-verning colony in the Empire to bo guilty of a display of disloyalty. We must do the Premier thejustice to write, that, so far as we know, he has never given utterance to disloyal or disrespectful language with regard to Her Majesty and the constitution of the Empire. On the contrary, when speaking the other day in reference to sending Home a contingent of our forces, lie spoke as a loyal subject, should speak, and in doing so expressed the sentiments of all his supporters, excepting the few whose political faith borders very closely upon anarchy. There are also some who are opposed to his goiiig Home because they recognise that the men with whom the Premier is allied are incapable of administering the affairs of the country during his absence. It is to be hoped that his colleagues will be guide! by the advice of the permanent officials of the departments for which he holds the portfolios or disaster may result. Parliament is to meet on the 6th April and is to be adjourned before Easter, till some time in September. This will only give twelve days for the consideration of the financial position of the colony, and the voting of supplies to carry on the business of the country till September. This will be ample time if the Ministry evidence a real desire to afford Parliament the information which it has a right to demand before granting further supplies. AVe feel confident of this, that the Opposition will not place any unnecessary obstacles in the way, more particularly as we glean from the telegram that the Premier has had an interview with Capt. Russell and that a satisfactory arrangement has been arrived at. We congratulate the Premier on having decided to go Home and on having turned a deaf ear to the noisy and disloyal section of his party. He has done the right thing, and in consequence will have raised himself in the estimation of a very large majority indeed of the population.