A SPECIAL SESSION.

Evening Star, Issue 3050, 27 November 1872, Page 2

A SPECIAL SESSION.

By a mistake in cop} ing, a portion of the Superintendent's letter to Messrs Gotten and Bradshaw was omitted. Wc now give the letter in full Kith November, 1872, Gentlemen, —In reply to your memo, of yesterday’s date, in which you advise me to call a meeting of the Provincial Council at the earliest possible date, in consequence of “ the present unsatisfactory state of affairs,” I have to observe that, in as far as the public interests are concerned, affairs are not at present more unsatisfactory than usual, but, on the contrary, the departmental business of the Province is being promptly attended to. The Executive Government, as you are aware, is using every exertion to give effect to the votes and resolutions of the Provincial Council at its last session ; and notwithstanding the increasing demand for labor, will, I trust, be able to congratulate the Council iu due course upon most, if not the whole, of the works authorised by it being either completed or in progress.— I am, &c., I need not say that practically the chief function which is now left to the Provincial Council is the appropriation of the moneys at the disposal of the Province, and as the revenue up to the 31st March has been already fully appropriated, 1 am unable to see what public benefit could result from calling the Council together at present, the more especially t.cciiig that the expenditure usually involved iu holding a session of Council (LUOOU) may be more beneficially expended otherwise. _ If there were any great question of public policy’ requiring an immediate expression of the opinion of the Council, I should not for a moment hesitate m at once convening it, either op pecuniary or any other grounds. A? it is, however, I can sco no possible object to bo gained by an immediate session, excepting personal inconvenience to many of the members, and perhaps an acrimonious discussion as to the Executive changes at present in progress—a discussion which, however gratifying either in itself or iu its results it might be to individuals, can be productive of no practical advantage whatever, in so far as the public interest is concerned.—l have, Aic., AC ANDREW,