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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4901, 6 December 1876, Page 2

By a telegram it will be seen that the Lyttelton Times calls in question the legality of the form of the prorogation of the Assembly by Royal Commission in October last. If is said that this form was not in accordance with the Constitution Act. Our contemporary having satisfied itself on these points, proceeds to infer the terrible consequences which will follow. Among these consequences are the very notable ones, that the Abolition Act is npt in force, and that, therefore, the provinces and the Superintendents are. The arguments, if any, by which our contemporary supports its' views,, are not before us, and we are not in a position to deal with them. It is, however, not unlikely that as these consequences would, be very agreeable to the party which our contemporary represents, the wish may be father to the thought. The Opposition found during the session sucha lotof mares’nests that one is inclined to think that this may be another of them"; and if the premises on which our. contemporary’s conclusion rests are not sound, the conclusion itself must entirely fail. Drowning men!'proverbially catch at straws, and it is clear from the great reluctance which some of the Superintendents display to quit office, they are ready to catch at any straw, however paltry, that;may float their way. It is also very remarkable that so remarkable , a flaw in the case of their opponents should' thus long have escaped the keen constitutional ken of those distinguished legal champions, Messrs.. Rees and Stout. : ,We' cannot, of course, now examine the question, or, say if it be, worth, examination, till our contemporary’s issue containing the article reaches our hands, but meantime we may say that the presumption is strong that the whole affair is only one more of the numerous mares’, nests found by the Opposition.