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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 330, 2 July 1875, Page 3

A contemporary : writes.—"lf Sir George had only remembered for a moment the terms of Earl Grey's despatch, conveying the sanction .of the Crown to provincial institutions, he might have anticipated what Lord Carnarvon's communication would be. Earl Grey. wrote with all the prescience of a. statesman:—"With respect to the powers-to be entrusted to these Provincial Councils, I am disposed, for my own part to believe (notwithstanding the alteration which you state to have taken place in your own views on this point) that in the progress ot events, as colonisation extends,; and the several - settlements are drawn nearer to each other in boundaries, and interests, they will very probably assume more.and more of a municipal, character, while, the functions of the General Legislature will increase.: But I do not think" it would be advisable to introduce any special provision either to acclerate or re-' tard such a gradual change. Anticipations' as to the course which political affairs may hereafter'take are everywhere liable to be unforeseen events, and most ot all in new ' and advancing .societies, Hence it seems to be the- wisest course to rest satisfied with adapting the institutions which ; are to 'be .established, as well as may be practicable, to the existing state:of things, leaving their future development, and the alterations which a change of circumstances may hereafter require, to be effected by the local authorities thus created."