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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4861, 20 October 1876, Page 2

The telegram from Earl Carnarvon to his Excellency the Governor, which was laid upon the table of the House yesterday, may be regarded as “ a settler" for Sir George Grey and Mr. Macandrew. After all the dark hints and innuendoes which the former gentleman has freely treated us with as to the Imperial Crown Law Officers, upon consultation, pronouncing the Abolition Act ultra vires, it turns out that the Imperial assent to that Act was not given until the opinions of the Crown Law Officers had been taken. It is now evident that no resource remains to Sir George Grey wherewith to raise a scare here. His assertions as to Imperial interference with legislation here were known to be reckless, and made for the most contemptible party purposes, without any regard to their being founded oh fact. But now his threats in this direction must cease, for Earl Carnarvon’s telegram would give a contradiction to anything he might allege. He can still, of course, quarrel with the authorities he has hitherto professed to respect, namely, the English Crown Law Officers and Earl Carnarvon; but then such a quarrel would give little ground for political quarrelling here, and would therefore be of no use for the exercise of those tactics in New Zealand politics by which the leader of the Opposition conducts his warfare. But one thing evidently remains, namely, that Sir George should, ask that a sufficient sum be placed on the Estimates to enable himself and his souslieutenant, Mr. Rees, to go Home and combat the Secretary, of State for the Colonies and his legal advisers, in the interests of humanity in general, and the Anglo-Saxon race in particular.