INTERPROVINCIAL.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 988, 19 July 1872, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

The ' Press' complains bitterly that noue of the Canterbury members have thought fit to meet their constituents since the last session of the Assembly, and deplores the growing disposition of members generally to shrink the time-honored practice of giving an account of their stewardship. It says : —" The result is that tho members and the constituencies are to all intents and purposes, as regards their political views, strangers to each other. No communication has passed between them for more than a twelvemonth—with one exception, not since the general election. Yet since that time circumstances have considerably altered. Tho election turned almost entirely on the policy of tho public works scheme, with its loan and its railways; other subjects being scarcely spoken of. But since the scheme has passed from theory into practice, the question is, not of its policy, but of how it is actually being administered. And in its progress it has stirred up other questions, such as that of constitutional charges, which press for solution. Yet on all these points the sentiments of the constituencies and their representatives are mutually unknown.