THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1882.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1074, 14 April 1882, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1882.

The very extraordinary conduct of the Governor in not only declining to follow the advice of the retiring Premier, the Hon. John Hall, but even refusing, to heat- if^hat it was in regard to the latteVs successor, is thoroughly in keeping" with the autocratic course that he "has ever pursued, and, though perhaps the 'present Government bowled Sir : Arthur out at Parihaka he has been nursing his wrath to keep it warm, and, the first opportunity he has had, has by his late action cast public indignity not only on the Hon. John Hall, but on all his colleagues. The fact of his sending for Sir George Grey at this crisis is a deliberate and intentional insult to Ministers, and at the same time will cause trouble to the country. It is hard to say whether the Governor, or Sir George Grey, is the bigger idiot, though probably that palm is carried away by the latter. The Governor had a spite to gratify, and must know that Sir George Grey has as much chance of holding office for a month as he has to succeed to the command of an iron-clad ; but Sir George Grey is on such excellent terms with himself that he fully believes he will form a Government and retain office. The famous Knight of La Mancha was not more crack-brained in his chivalry than Sir George Grey in his Quixotic undertaking to form a Ministry that will command a majority in the House. He will, no doubt, gather together some tag-rag and bob-tail Executive round him, which will be turned out after a few weeks of public time have been wasted, and needed legislation delayed through this most reprehensible and unjustifiable freak of Her Majesty's representative. Every one, even Sir George Grey's best friends, are heartily sick of him and his vagaries, and to call on him to form a Government under all the circumstances is simply to cast ridicule on Constitutional Government. Again, the conduct of the Governor will inflict actual and very serious loss on the Colony, for as soon as the news of Sir George Grey being sent for is cabled home New Zealand securities will go down like lead. His revenge will seriously affect the credit of the Colony, will cause a loss of perhaps hundreds of thousands. As to the projected loan, that may be given up as hopeless till confidence is restored, and this, even when the Grey pack are turned out, will take some time to thoroughly re-establish. It is to be hoped when Parliament does meet that it will take some steps to bring his Excellency to book for what he has done. Even Governors cannot outrage political decency with impunity, and we much mistake the men who compose the Legislature if they sit down tamely under the despotism, tyranny, and arrogance of the one who unfortunately now lords it over New Zealand. What action can be taken, we are not at present aware, but the day of reckoning is at hand, and Sir Arthur Gordon will leave New Zealand almost ps cordially disliked as he was in Fiji.