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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 72

Christchurch Star

Christchurch Star.

One of the Bills introduced by the Ministry that will be utterly condemned is the Hon. J. McKenzie's Libel Bill. Has the man gone clean daft, or what is the matter with him? The other members of the Cabinet are decidedly to blame for allowing such a measure to be introduced, and if the House has any sense of dignity left it will refuse to even discuss such a measure. The mover of the Bill and the Bill itself should be, by the members, treated with silent contempt and just voted out on the very first opportunity. It is to be regretted that the Hon. J. McKenzie is exceeding all the bounds within which a Minister of the Crown should keep himself and his proposals, and if he finds that he cannot curb the spirit that has risen within him, the sooner he quits the Ministry the better. At present it seems to the outsider as though he were riding for a fall, but the mischief is that he may bring the Ministry down along with him. If Mr. Seddon does not control his Cabinet better, he will find himself involved in serious difficulties. The Libel Bill of the Minister of Lands is enough to wreck any Ministry, discredit any party, and earn for the man who could conceive such a measure the contempt of every open-minded man in the colony. Away with such a measure. It is a mere "dirty little black devil,"