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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3002, 8 February 1881, Page 2

Briei-ly put. Mr Ormond, in bis memorable speech of last session, said that, while he bad been one of tbe most ardent in the cause of abolition, its very meagre results had caused him to modify, if not chanse. bis views, and be was far from belieting that a return to provincialism, iv some kind of modified form, was not the direction legislation ought to take. It would be useless, says the Waikato Times, to deny that a return to provincialism is a moot point, if not a settled determination, on the part of not a few members of the Legislature, and that the forthcoming general election will find i- orient -be mire prominent hustings cries ig more than probable. The member for Pa, m\l haschalked it down as part of bis programme for the ensuing session, and the Auckland Herald has already pone into commission as bis locum tenens or mouth-piece on the point.