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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3137, 18 July 1881, Page 2

With this issue we publish a full summary of Sir George Grey's "Local Government Bill," and we commend it to the CBreful consideration of our readers. "We think but one conclusion can be arrived at concerning it, and that is tbat it is preposterous in its proposals and that it would be found an utterly impracticable measure in its details. It seeks to create a number of independent states bound together by the slenderest of federal ties. Sir George Grey cannot hope that the House will waste ti-ne over the serious discission of anyone cf its douses. As a foil to the proposals of the Government the bill will have its risen ; the first does not go half far enough, the latter goes a great deal too far Between the two room is permitted foi ths introduction of Mr Bheeban's bill to repeal the " Provinces Abolition Act," and the real battle over tbe question of local government will be fought out on that ground.