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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1965, 22 April 1875, Page 2

It has been a source of remark for some time that with all the discussion on the abolition resolutions of last session there has been no practical solution of the question. No scheme has been propounded by which the proposed changes in the Constitution are to be effected or indicating the nature of those changes. The New Zealand Herald has therefore come to the rescue and submitted the " rough draft" of a bill "to provide for \ the calling together of a Convocation to revise the Constitution Acts of New Zealand." This bill, which explains itstlf, we fluote :— An Act to provide for the calling of a Convention to revise the Constitution Acts of New Zealand. Be it enacted: 1. There shall be elected in each province a delegate for every twenty thousand of the people or fraction thereof according to the Census of 1874. ::;::; 2. The elections shall be held in the same manner as the elections for Super* intendents of the provinces. : 3. The delegates to be chosen under this Act shall meet in the (place) at (city) at n»on on the ■ day -of .■-■;., ■>„, next; and as many as are therei-present may proceed to organise and adopt rules for their government. 4. The revision of the Constitution Act finally proposed by said Convention shall be at once published in the New Zealand Gazette, and shall be submitted to the General Assembly at its next session. 5. The members of said Convention shall receive for their services and expenses the sum of — pounds each, save and except the members of the province in which the Convention is held, and whose expenses shall be defrayed by the Council of said province. The expenses attending the election of delegates and other needful expenditure in connection with the Convention shall also be defrayed from the Colonial Revenue.

Ik to-day's issue is published further evidence adduced at the enquiry now proceeding at Ohinemuri before Warden Keddell re the issue of miners' rights, including Mr Mackay's statement. We have no wish to offer any opinion on the question at present, and we cannot help thinking—with many others who claim to possess a sense of what is just and fair —that our contemporary has allowed his personal feelings against Mr Mackay to get the better of his judgment. His comments on this case are simply indecent; the enquiry has not terminated ; and the persons who are indicated by name are absent from the district; so that a moment's reflection ought to have convinced our .contemporary that his inferences are ill-timed and grossly unfair.