STAR TELEGRAMS.
PER PRESS AGENCY.
AUCKLAND.
, This clay. A reply from Earl "Carparyoji io| Sir George Grey's petition re the Laiid Funds and Provincial Abolition has been forwarded frpm . Wellirigton, transmitted, through s the' 'Marquis ; f6f Norrnanby; Earl Carnarvon, says :—" You will have the goodness to cause Sir George Grey, to be informed that I have read both his petitions with the attention which is due to any communication from him;^ and while; I differ^ very widely from many qf. the views and opinions to which has given expression I do not think it desirable to enter into any detailed examination of his representatipns/for^the? simple reason that they relate to matters >ri respect of which I do not think there should be any pretence for saying Her Majesty's'goyernment have influenced, or interfered with decisions of the Colonial Legislature. lam at present advised of no intention of applying toy parliament for any legislation on the subjects of provinciat institutions or crown lands in. New . Zealand ; and no suggestion that such legislation is necessary or desirable has" beeii; made to? me .by, or on behalf of the Government of the colony or from any other quarter^ These are subjects which the General?: Assembly of' New Zealand is, in my opinion, quite competent to discuss—as indeed it has already been very fully and ably done in a debate^ in the Houso of Representatives, which terminated in August last, and which I have perused with much interest.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2015, 19 June 1875, Page 2
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243STAR TELEGRAMS. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2015, 19 June 1875, Page 2
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