TO CORRESPONDENTS.
M.P.O.—The Provincial Council will meet on Friday, April 26th, or about three weeks from this date. We have already been informed that the members of His Honor’s Executive do not intend to do anything; whether His Honor coincides with them in this do-nothing policy we shall learn from his speech on opening the session. Heretofore he has written his own speeches ; whether he will do so this time, or leave it for “ Ministers ” to do it for him remains to be seen. We think it is likely that he will adopt his usual course, and though not strictly in accordance with “Constitutional practice ” we do not see that there is any help for it.
A Volunteer. —You are mistaken. We do not object to prizes being given for the best rifle shots, but we say that proficency in some other matters is equally as deserving of encouragement by the state. B.P.—lt is said that Dr. Featherston does not intend to take any active part in opposition to the present Government in the next session. The following is one of the versions given of what he said on the subject; but his speech though it made a profound sensation in the House was not reported. It was, in effect, a declaration on the part of Dr. Featherston that before the next session of the Assembly the provincial governments would unite and repair, as he expressed it, all the tinkering which the con. stitution had been made the victim of, would strive to render themselves more powerful, and exalt the provincial at the expense, if not the downfall of the general authority. Anglo Saxon. —You are wrong. The effect of centralization is to emasculate popular energy. A tropical climate, prosperity, and indirect taxation have the same effect.
J.W.—We do not undertake to return rejected communications.
Greytown. —There can be no doubt that Mr. Bunny would introduce a measure into Parliament for the trusteeship and management of the Greytown reserves, if requested to do so by the parties interested, •“ i.e.” the Greytown public.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 14, 6 April 1867, Page 2
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