POLITICAL-GENERAL.
The General, Assembly has been prorogued. The most part of the session was spent in contests between the two great parties in New, Zealand politicsr— yiz. : — the Centralists and Provincialisfcs. Mr Stafford has managed to keep in oilice, but has sacrificed a good deal of his prestige and popularity. His Govern- , xnent has had to abandon nearly every measure introduced bearing on the aim- . plitication of Government in New Zealand. He showed a decided tendency to evade divisions on measures that if passed would have conferred great good on the future Government of the colony. He misdoubted the strength of his own party, and the consequence is that a good many of those that supported him during the last session willy.most probably :V ba found in the ranks of the opposition next year. A fresh native insurrection has broken out which bids fair to exceed in fierceness and bloodthirstiness any former occurrence of a similar nature. The opinion appears to be generally entertained that either the whole native race will have to be exterminated, or else the North Island placed under the protection of the Imperial Government, and become a Crown Colony. Particulars of the insurrection will be found elsewhere.
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Southland Times, Issue 1066, 2 December 1868, Page 4
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201POLITICAL-GENERAL. Southland Times, Issue 1066, 2 December 1868, Page 4
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