The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1887. CABINET MAKING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2714, 1 October 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1887. CABINET MAKING.

Cabinet making is now a leading local industry in politioal circles. Our old cabinet has gone to pieces. It may •not be patched up but must speedily bo .relegated • to obscurity, • It is settled that we are to have a new cabinet and the question naturally arises what will it be like? 'ln Wellington the impression is prevalent that one or two failures will precede the .formation of the permanent Ministry which will carry the Colony on till the next election in 1892, but we fail to "seewhy, withalittleprudoncetheparty. in power cannot make satisfactory' arrangements in the. first instance. We may assume that Major Atkinson will be sent for aod will undertake the formation of a Ministry,. but it does not follow that he should be the com ing Premier. Everybody knows that as,a Colouial Treasurer Major Itkiri-' son was a success, but that he was. less'fbrtunate as a Premier... It is .quite possible that the Major, with' bis cjiaraoteristic unselfishness, may try'aiid fiiid. some one who will; be more likely to keepthe party together, than" himself. If has been'. Supposed'' ■by some'..that-Sir Julius, .w]| be; 'allowed to join the- party 'of 'victory,* but we.can scarcely credit: the. forma', tiou'of a coalition which wo : uld'be,.ai' public scandal.'' Sir Julius; YGgel's proper position in the uew ■Parliament will bo that of leader of the Oppoajtion, of a fairly strong and pitedj Opposition. Then again wo have: Sir John Hull a capable- ox .Premier '-in our new Parliament, but Sir-John Hall appears to be playing a some; what lone hand. '' He has no followers;, amongst the representatives of the Canterbury^district from whioh. ho comes and for this reason' he is unlikely to be called upon to' serve as' Premier. The stronghold: of the democrat party is undoubtedly tha Auckland Provincial district, and'it/is quite possible that the new Premier will be chosen to suit the.prejudices of the Auckland phalanx. The man who perhapß would best lead this very influential .section would bo the old veteran Sir Frederick Whitaker, and we should not be at all surprised to find him to be the coming man. Who would act with him if he did take the Premiership is almost a matter of wild conjecture. In the North Island,' Mr Mjtchelson has a claim, and after him perhaps Mr G. Beetham has a right to take cabinet rank, in the Middle Island, Sir John Hall and Mr Scobie McKenzie might be regarded as the fittest persons to select for places in the new Ministry. There is plenty of material for forming a better Cabinet than we have had. iu power for the past six years, and with a compact Opposition under the leadership of a capable man like Sir Julius Vogel, we might get some .really good measures out of our somewhat expensive and cumbrous law-making machinery and a strong and trust- ' worthy administration.' •