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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2126, 14 October 1867, Page 2

Tbi Press must really give us credit .for having a regard for principles rather than persons. Unneighbourly suspicions are usually based upon an uufortunate state of affairs at home. It ■may suit the Press to argue that Mr .lioorhouse is always wrong. It does Jnpt,;; however, suit us to assert that .Mr.Mporhouse or any manisalwayß 'right;/; We have denounced the Loan Consolidation Act, and have not with;held;blame from any who supported it. : Me /repeat our belief that such a measure/could not have been forced through the/Provincial Councils, nor even /through the Assembly itself, if sufficient time had been given for the oxpressibn of general opinion throughout ;tlie country. This is one of the great •'•evils-iVye charge against centralism. It /matters not who may wield the central .■power./ Mr Moorhouse, surrounded /by the/best men of Canterbury, would : be objectionable to us as wielding a central 1 , colonial powor unchecked by Other/ /counterbalancing institutions. There might be a difference in uegree .between him and his colleagues and Sir Stafford's Ministry, but the objection: would remain. It i* the system we dislike far more than the men. If a portion of the Provincial parly itself has not, been able to resist an evil influence,; there is all the more need to maintain the checb which may counterbalance: it.