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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1752, 25 September 1875, Page 2

The Committee of the House has resolved that Provincial Councils shall not meet again. There seems a breach of the spirit, if not of the letter of the com pact, which was that the operation of the bill should not begin till after the close of the next session of Parliament. It remains therefore to be seen, whether this decision of the House will be attended to, or whether in despite of it the Provincial Councils shall meet as usual. Much may hot result from such assertion of right, but we venture to say that the Auckland Provincial Council will meet when convened, this decision to the contrary notwithstanding. The fears of the Government and their dependents appear to have been excited by the danger of certain " resolutions " in which Provincial Councils may indulge themselves, and Mr Fitzherbert hit the nail on the head when he said, that the same mind that would gag the Councils, would gag tho Press if it could. We venture to think either attempt would be alike futile, and that these Councils assembling, will no less than the Press, become exponents of the popular repugnance to the hi»h-handed dealings of the General Government, and will be instrumental in formulating the policy and constitution that will take the place of the absurd and incongruous things that have been thrown down on the floor of the House, as proposals for constitutional reform. That Provincial Councils, as we know them, are passing away is undoubted. But we believe before they die, they will cradle the new Constitution of New Zealand.