For the cause that lacks aisliUnce, For the wrong: that needs resisUnc Foi the future in the distance. And the good that we can do,

The Government after ruthlessly throwing overboard one important measure after another, and by forcing important bills pell-mell through the House when members were exhausted with long sittings, have brought the business to a point when prorogation is possible. The session. is neariug its close, but will end ignominiously by bringing to naught measures on which a large amount >. of time lias been spent. Much important legislation, including matters which have been presseden the notice of Parliament year after year, have gone to the wall. Among these is the "Fisheries Bill" which was dropped by the Government last night. A very comprehensive measure, providing for the better management of our fisheries, and affording protection for fish, native and ac climatised, had been passed through the Legislative Council. It embodied many valuable provisions taken from the law now in force in Victoria. This bill with many others equally necessary, has been sacrificed simply because members will not remain long enough in Wellington to pass them. The Government cannot be con gratulated upon its management of the House. It overloaded the Order Paper with trifling work in the beginning, holding back the most important measures till the last days ot the session. This may be good political tactics, but it is not statesman ship, The bills on which it based its policy, as enunciated in the opening speech, have mostly dropped through. The fact is that every session the House attempts a great deal too much to do it well. The business put before it should be more select, better digested, and more compre hensive. The energies of the House would then be conserved, and it would not only turn out more work, bat mach better work than the hasty, ill-considered statutes which yearly come out of the legislative mill, to yield in the future a perfect harvest to the legal profession.
