Major Atkinson’s tyranny has one characteristic. It is impudent tyranny. For barefaced political assurance, com mend us to his talking about making Ministerial replies to members’questions in writing. Who is Major Atkinson that the moment he is in power he should play the dictator in a representa tive Assembly ? Perhaps nothing more unseemly could he imagined than the sight of the Premier u with a majority at his back, ” endeavouring to alter the rules of procedure. Any suggestion like this should have been intrusted to an influential and moderate man to make. Coming from the source it does it sounds like a menace. We do not the innovation,but we strongly hold that when proposed by the Premier it should have been “ blocked.” No doubt the Major will gain courage by his success in this instance and move before long : —“ That for the future members shall put no questions, but he content with ministerial assurances whenever it may he deemed necessary to make such.”

A cebtain local found its way by an oversight into our columns last evening, which seemed to indicate that we were opposed to the public school concert being repeated, and thought one per formance ought to be sufficient. Such is not the case. We have no such thought, and if we had we should not express it on an occasion when it might be calculated to reflect injuriously upon the efforts of the Committee of an institution of such importance as the Public School. We cordially approve of the repetition of the concert, because it will give everybody an opportunity of being present. On the first night hundreds are always unable to get in. The concert at the Roman Catholic schoolroom a week or two ago was repeated with immense success. We never hinted that there should be no repetition there, and we offer no such suggestion now. In fact, this year there are still better grounds for repetition than before, inasmuch as the entertain tainment will, we believe, quite distance every former one given by the Public School children.
