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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2055, 5 August 1875, Page 2

PROM CORRESPONDENTS.

WELLINGTON. R/;' -\r-ij .'•jJii-.-lv.i:'.;;::;h' ■TKisday..'Had the fire in the House of Parliament occurred, plater, the consequences would have' been serious. When the house was discovered to be full of smoke, the r strangers' gallery, which was filled, and the house were/cleared- by the -jSpeaker. Jokes were made on the occaj 'sion about gunpowder plot, find sinister j designs to abol;sh the Assembly. . # I The Times has an able leader this morning on the estimates of expenditure, what seems to strike them most forci-" bly being the boldness of the Government in undertaking work of extended administration during the transition stage from Provincial to Local Government, Provincial machinery being left intacr. But as the Government assume all the responsibility of administration they thus challenge criticisai> and create.a healthy political feeling, the ;first step towards an educated colonial public opinion, which was impossible while there was a divided administration and an- ( tagomstic or divergent arms in legislation. In conclusion The Times congratulates the country on the concrete shape its public business is^ taking.