PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
The first session of the new Council, which should have commenced yesterday, has come to an untimely end. The Deputy-Superinten-dent had prepared an unexceptionable address, many,of the new members had arrived with the punctuality vv hich generally results from maiden impatience, Mr. Jos. Brittan had dropped in to pick a few holes in the sayings and doings of the Government, and worse than all, the fair sex had mustered in full force, only to be doomed to disappointment. At the hour appointed to commence business, the Provincial Secretary announced that a legal difficulty had been discovered, which prevented the Council from proceeding to business. The presence of the Superintendent was found to be imperative. Amid murmurs of astonishment, which found an exponent in Mr. Brittan, who expressed his surprise that with a lawyer at the head of the Government and another in the Executive such an error should have remained undiscovered till that moment, the house proceeded to elect a Speaker, the choice falling on Charles Bowen, Esq., and then adjourned till the 18th August.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1014, 30 July 1862, Page 4
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177PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. Lyttelton Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1014, 30 July 1862, Page 4
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