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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11389, 3 October 1891, Page 2

The Feilding Star thus sums up the results of a session whiot, as tie Sydney Morning Herald remarks, showed such a rare contrast between promise and performance : — " The history of the session just closed is not one the colony can look back on with any degree of satisfaction. On the contrary, it may be considered the saddest exhibition of wasted time and opportunities ever witnessed. Pledged to economy, the policy of the Government has been ono of lavish expenditure. Pledged to reduce taxation, taxation has been increased. Pledged to reorganise the civil service, they disorganised it by discharging old servants whose places they filled with proteges of their own. They began the session with the good wishes and promised support of every respectable journal, and end it with aimost every journal against it. With an overwhelming majority, tLey wove unable to force oven their own pet measures through the House. . Fortunately for the welfare of the colony, and the safety of the public and private property from confiscation and spoilation, the members of the Legislative Council wero true to their best traditions, and rejected innovations which were calculated only to benefit one class at the expense of the other. A Ministry composed of faddists has proved an utter failure so fay, and no man can tell what the future may bring forth when the Government of the country remains in such weak hands.