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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3944, 19 August 1881, Page 2

The following are Mr Macandrew's sug gestions, re Insular Separation-.—" With a view of greater efficiency to economy in the Government of New Zealand, it is expedient that the colony should be divided into two distinct provinces, separated by Cook's Straits ; (2) that each of the two provinces shall have a legislature, to be composed, in the iii'st instance, of the members of the House of Kepresen tatives in each island, who shall be elected to serve in the next Colonial Parliament, and of a President, to be elected of the said members ; (3) the President shall be the chief executive officer of the province, and an integral part of the said legislature. He shall possess the same functions in relation to the Provincial Council as does the Governor towards the House of Representatives: (4)- that each of the provincial legislatures shall have full, independent, and constitutional powers of legislation for administration as regards every matter and thing affecting the peace, order, and good government of the province, except in as hereinafter provided. It shall not be lawful for any provincial legislature to make or ordain any law or ordinancee for any of the purposes hereinafter mentioned, that is to say —(1) The imposition or regulation of duties of customs to be imposed on the importation or exportation o( any goods at any port or place in the province; (2) The establishment or abolition of any Court of Judicature of civil or criminal jurisdiction, except courts for trying and punishing such offences as may by the law of New Zealapjd are or may be made punishable in a secondary way to altering the constitution, jurisdiction or practice of any such court, except as aforesaid; (3) regulatng any of the current coin or the issue of any bills, notes, or other paper currency: (4) regulating the weights and measures to be used in the province or any part thereof; (o) regulating the post offices and the carnage of letters within tli3 province; (0) establishing, altering, or repealing laws relating to bankruptcy or insolvency ; (7) the maintenance and erection of beacons and lighthouses on the coast; (8) the im position of any dues or other charges on shipping at any port or harbor in the province ; (9) regulating marriages; (10) inflicting any disabilities or restrictions upon persons of the native race, to which persons of European birth would not also be subjected ; (11) altering in any way the criminal law of .New Zealand, except in so far as relates to the trial and punishment of such offences as are now, or may by the criminal laws of .New Zealand, be punishable in a summary way as aforesaid; (12) regulating the course of inheritance of real Or personal property, or affecting the law relative to wills."