Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price 1d. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1886. A Probable Dissolution.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1802, 3 March 1886, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1886. A Probable Dissolution.

The opinion ig now generally held ;in wellinformed circles that Ministers will ask big Excellency the Governor to grant a dissolution before Pailiament is again alle d together, so that an immediate appeal to the country can be made. Decidedly this is the best course that could be adopted under existing circumstances. During last session the Ministry only held office under sr (Trance. A majority of members in Parliament were opposed to the policy and measures of the Government, so tore the former to pieces and rejected the latter. Ministers meekly sub* mitted to this humiliation and allowed their policy and measures to go by the board, only caring that they should be allowed to remain in office. Ministers had their wish simply because a majority in the House was content with defeating their measures and did not desire to turn out the Government lest Major Atkinson should again get into power. Should another session be held before a dissolution is granted, Ministers would just be in the same position as before. If they tabled a policy, containing some of the features referred to in recent Ministerial speeches, a niajoutv in the present fit.me would be sure to ii i-i it. Under such a defeat, Ministers woiiM : roljiibly ask fora dissolution. It out ■ be far better Unit the dissolution ■hou.d be granted at once so that the Ministry ■■mi.l ; y their policy before their constituent it■. .Hid stand or f.»ll by the decision given. An a- a dissolution and general election political parties would assume definite shape and form, and there would be some possili it.v of obtaining a slioog Government posce.taed of a fair working majority in the House. We trust, therefore, that Ministers will ask his Excellency to grant a dissolution and that he will comply with their request. What the policy would be with which the Ministry would go to the country, we cannot precisely say. Oi.e Minister after [another has indicated several features of a policy, but there has been no definite declaration on the part of the Government aa a whole. Within the next few days Ministers will have met at Wellington and laid their beads together, as the result of which some definite declaration of their intended policy will probably be made public.