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Globe, Volume VII, Issue 771, 9 December 1876, Page 2

Our morning contemporary, the Lyttelton Times , is notoriously great at unearthing mare’s nests. The other morning it startled its reader with the alarming statement that Provincialism is not dead, but only somnolent. The prorogation of the Assembly by commission, it maintains, was illegal and invalid—ergo, the session of 1876 is, theoretically at least, in full force and vitality. As a natural sequence, the Abolition Act is yet unborn, Ministers are no better than impostors, and the numberless Eeturning Officers busy about “countyfying” the country, only wasting their energies on the desert air. All this is very serious, and should be looked to at once! No time ought to be lost, by the powers that

be, in setting straight this lamentable political fiasco, or the dire consequences hinted at by the Cathedral square oracle might be upon us. Practically of course, the Assembly should be immediately called together and reprorogued in accordance with proper and lawful rites, as propounded by the Times. What a valuable chance for Mr Macandrew! and what are our own Political magnates about ? We trust the so-called late Executive, together with his Honor the Superintendent, may soon take steps necessary to set at rest the public mind, so alarmingly unhinged by those uncontrovertible dicta of our distracted friend.