The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1763, 27 August 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1874.

In the Legislative Council last night the "lords " threw out the Railway Bill by a majority of three. If this should lead to further constitutional changes it will not be surprising. The Council as at present constituted does not find favor in the eyes of the people. Its interference has often, been mischievous; but now that it has become obstructive it has -furnished the only ground that was wanted for its removal. If Mr. Vogel does not at once suggest a remedy for the obitructiveness of the Council, the next general election will see the question made a hustings cry. A second chamber constituted like the New Zealand Legislative Council is the greatest anomaly in representative institutions', and should be abolished. The rejection of the Eailway Bill appears to us to be an unwarrantable use of the peculiar functions supposed to belong to the " lords; " they havp exceeded their powers by refusing to pass a Money Bill which the Lower House Las approved: being a Bill in which

the finances of tho colony are concerned, it was no part of the province of the Council to reject it. They will either have to reconsider their vote or take the responsibility of a deadlock, which, in the present state of the Immigration and Public Work Scheme would be ruinous.