A New Colonial Institution.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 4

A New Colonial Institution.

Tin. Mutter :i'O (;-ay> the "St. .iunu>'<(iii/.cttc '") being equipped with a new constitution Previous attempt^ at reform have generally ended in failure, t.ho ehiet diiiiculty being to leeoneile the ambition^ of local htatcf-'iucn with the «ell-beiiii> of the people on lite one hand, and with certain imperial inteiots on the othei . Another diih'oulty a. o->e fiom the inordintile clo-.ii o of the uuL'ltvMud cl.i^se^ to taUe part in polices. fSomo ii\e or si\ yearivj;o the el' ctiun of no le-^^ than tinec, candidates, who could barely read or wiite, to the Legislative Afts.einbly, led to the resignation m waw ot all the other members. The main point-, about their n^w constitution area-, follows : --The CJovernor sit> in the J.egihlativc Council, but will no lonoer have a vote. There will ba fourteon elected members, and six <r ojh'cio members: the power of dealintr \\itii iocal matter* being thus left lo the ohof-en reprepentatives of tlie people. To the (Governor is reserved the right of \eto ; while the Soveieign will, when necessary, legiil-ite by letters patent or b\ Oider-in-Cou;\cil. The^e safeguards will *u\e aliko to protect the islanders from oppiession and to Srccure a pro])er regard to MiiltaA-5 jio-ition in the line of fortre*-o.> connecting' England and the Ea^b.