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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 252, 4 May 1866, Page 3

"We are compelled to hold o^er our report ol the evening sitting of the Provincial . Council until to-morrow. The busiuess "was chiefly the obtainingleavetointroduce bills, and securing theii first 'reading. But little ■ discussion ensued. The Police Ordinance was considered iv committee, and re-committed for further consideration ; the debate upon the Railway Leasing Oi'd'n nues will come on to-day, anl also the Provincial Liabilities Ordinance, and other questions of interest. The "Wellington correspondent of the Daily Times, under date 25th April, writes :— "TSc changes in the Ministry have yet been announced nor have there been any made up to this moment: but i believe thafc Mr Stafford is now diligent!-, working in this direction, and it wili in all pro bability noi. be very long beforo the Cabinet assumes a permanent shape. I use the wore ••permanent" .idviaedly, for I hear that on hi hands the conviction has permeated the Pro ■vinces, that it would be a great political mistaki seriously to contemplate or attempt upsetting Mi Stafford's Minist y during the ensuing session, a any rate. "Whether acting in concert or indivi '-dually I do not know ; but the opinions exprebsec by leading colonists and friends in England h the present mail are most decidedly against an; new. Ministry coming into power, and this wii Bj-ens/.hen tbe similar Colonial opinion abov mentioned. The letters from some of thesecolonist in London, which 1 have seen, not ouly state tha New Zealand's mo"ey credit is in a deplorabi condiY-a (which, unfortunately, we all too we] know), but that ths one thing more necessar than any thing else to restore 'it is the permanenc, <jf the Gov* nun ent i-ow in power. Stability c Government is the one thing wanted— finds whose Jrcwigrsirig it inattOH eomgwativel