The Lyttelton Times. TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1866.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1635, 13 March 1866, Page 2

The Lyttelton Times. TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1866.

The Provincial Council will meet this afternoon for positively the last session. "We believe the chief business to be done is a formal amendment of the Provincial Council Extension Ordinance, passed last session, in order to enable the requisite Electoral rolls to be made out for the new districts constituted bj that ordinance. It is stabed that, without some special provision being made for that purpose, the Provincial Electoral Eolls cannot be made out a second time within one year; and therefore that, in the absence of such a provision in the present case, either no rolls could be used but those of last October's publication, or no election could take place until after next October. It is a pity that the ordinance of last session was not perfect; for we believe that nothing but the fault which it contains has caused the Provincial elections to be so long delayed. It is understood that His Honor the Superintendent has requested the G-overnor to grant a dissolution, and that the request would have 'been granted long before now, but that the action of the Council itself was needed to supply the deficient machinery for its reconstruction. We may expect, therefore, that the present session of the Council will last but a very few days, and that a dissolution will follow on the prorogation with the greatest possible speed. We trust that the mere work of making up the new rolls has actually been done by this time; there was no necessity to postpone that step, at least, until the law should pass. At any rate, the Superintendent's election may come off without any change of rolls whatever, and that anxious stage may be got over without prolonging any further the contest of which the public are already weary , r to say nothing of the candidates. If it were not for the desirability of bringing about the election without any more delay we should be glad that the question of amending the law of pre-emptive rights were taken into consideration. The next session of the Council may possibly be later than that of the G-eneral Assembly, to which body the resolutions of the Council on the subject must be carried for formal enactment.