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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 260, 9 November 1878, Page 2

The Auckland Star of Wednesday says : — " It is confidently expected in well-informed political circles that the Ministerial policy neitt session will be of a a Character for bold* ness wholly unprecedented in the history of the colony. Sir George Grey has, it is said, become convinced that a great constitutional struggle is pending between the two branches of the Legislature, and has resolved that the battle-ground shall be of his own choosing, and that the fight shall take place at his own time. It is also rumored in the same wellinformed circles that Sir George contemplates precipitating the struggle next session, when his policy will prohably include an income and property tax and a more liberal Electoral Bill, if that be possible, than the one which was withdrawn in the session just closed. Reforms in the constitution of the Upper House may be the precise point upon which the struggle will commence, resulting in a dissolution, and the election of a Parliament more capable of dealing effectually with the political requirements which have been the outcome of the abolition of the provinces, but which were almost entirely lost sight of in the conflict between the two great parties at the last general election. The Parliament of the future will, doubtless, be largely composed of men of advanced and liberal political views and aspirations."