“ Certainly not,” says the Captain ; explain ing with- a polite bow that he is only referring to the tendency of.the Ministerial policy, and he-explains, a good deal, sailing uncommonly close to the wind, backed up by the beaming countenances* of his friends around smiling at his pleasant adroitness. For the' abuse he cares very little. As a matter of fact it has not been so bad in one way. “We have certainly been dressed down by the Premier, rather severely when we wanted to go to bed,’’ but it is the constant .charge of obstruction he objects to. The Opposition;can’t do its plainest duty without being accused of obstruction, but the country itfill stand by them wjien it gets to know the facts; when it realises how the House has been driven by a ruthless taskmaster to work when it-was physically, mentally and morally unfit to do any work at all. “We are a small few, sir, with a great responsibility.” He rakes up many things. The Sergeant •at-Arms business —“ a breach of the law” — the Pomohaka purchase—“ land bought at nearly double its previously ascertained value, and there is- the fact that a nephew of the seller’ was the instigator of the whole .busi ness.” The announced Government leading ' measures —‘ ‘ where are. they ? The Licens 'ng Bill to wit. No intention to pass it. I object to putting Bills on the Order Paper and keep ing us on tenterhooks aboutthem.” The financial policy he denounces as a thing which gives Ministers a million to scatter broadcast just as they please, without any of the safeguards which marked the last borrowing, arranged by a past-master in the art constitutional. The Benmore correspondence finds him in a judicial mood. Most injudicious person th 9 Benmore manager, nothing could be more' .foolish than his demand for protection throe months in advance ; had there been a more sensible man in that position probably there would have been no trouble at all. All this he admits readily. But, and his voice deepens as he.says it, it was wrong, he might almost say diabolically wrong, of the Premier to in timate that ho would never give help at all in the case. He turns to the Premier, saying that of course the letter, though signed by the In spector, contained the sentiments of the Premier. 