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Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 155, 24 December 1853, Page 7

By the Mary,we have Nelson papers to the 1 Oth inst. The Provincial Council was still in session. The only measure yet passed by the Council was the Executive Government Bill. Considerable discussion ensued on the third reading, when a motion to re-instate a clause to provide a Provincial Secretary to represent the Executive in the Council was moved, and rejected; as was also a new clause, to the effect that the two nonofficial members of the Executive Council, the Treasurer and Solicitor, should be members of the Council. It would thus appear that the Superintendent is unrepresented in the Council, and is held responsible to that body for his acts; and should His Honor find that he has not enough friends in the Council to carry out his policy, he is told to consider " whether he was the proper person to fill the office^ he did fill, and whether he ought not to resign !" • The Council have unanimously passed a resolution to the effect "that the, apportionment of the revenue derived from the Customs before the General Assembly had declared what sum should he appropriated under its authority to specified purposes, is repugnant to the provisions of the Constitution Act, and is not warranted by the existence of any circumstances which would have prevented the meeting of the General Assembly." A Select Committee had been appointed " to consider the best system of education,"