PROVINCIAL BUZ BUZ.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1204, 21 August 1874, Page 4

PROVINCIAL BUZ BUZ.

[WESTPOBT EVENING STAB.] Those who profess to know, assert that before the end of the ensuing September month, tho Nelson Provincial Council will be again called together by the Superintendent to devise some plan of dragging the provinces out of its financial difficulties, aud that that the present Executive will not then experience a happy time. The government of tho province i 3 divided against itself, the Superintendent, in making show of placid consent to waive personal responsibility, has shaken the faith of tho few who still swore by him. Tho Provincial Secretary has to face a host of unfilled promises to disappointed officediolders, and the Executive, as a whole, neither individually or collectively, commands either coufadeuce or respect sufficient to ensure stability of office. The retrench inciit policy has proved a sorry exhibition of incompetency, aud its utter collapse is impending. Apart from this there i 3 a strong under current of opinion dead against the., present Provincial Government, and do what the Executive may it cannot be stemmed. The people are sick and weary of the muddled condition of affairs, and would be glad to accept any alter native rather than submit to a continuance of present mis-rule. The authenticated rumors buzzing about that the Superintendent and his Secretary are at issue on Provincial matters, the one contending that his policy will prove the salvation of the Province, and the other that it will plunge it deeper into ruin, indicate that when the Council meets there will be much wordy warfare. Evidence of this antagonism has already been given hi tho House, where Mr Curtis plainly repudiated all concurrence with the reductions lately made by his Secretary. The contest, if contest there be, will not interest tho public much, beyond exciting the hope that the contest may end, like tho famous fight of the Kilkenny cats, in the extinction of both parties.