MR. BERRY'S MISSION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 690, 8 May 1879, Page 2

MR. BERRY'S MISSION.

Writing on " The Victorian embassy and its results," the Evening Post says : — Mr Graham Berry, the Premier of Victoria, has certainly accomplished great things by his much-scoffed-at Embassy to the Imperial Government. Not only has he been enabled to float a large loan with a success which astonished the very Banks, but he has obtained a reply from the Imperial Government on the main subject of his mission, which is as satisfactory as the most sanguine of his friends could have hoped for. The position taken up by the English Cabinet regarding the Constitutional difficulty in Victoria is a ' sound and sensible one. It is one also full of interest to every colony which possesses representative institutions. No one could have expected thai the Home Government would grant all that Mr Berry asked. To do so would have been to decide, to a considerable extent, on expate evidence, and to intrude on a domestic broil in the character of a partizan instead of a referee. What the Home Government has done is to recognise in the most ample and complete manner the right of the Colonies to govern themselves — the right of the people to regulate their own business 1 matters. ... We have very little expectation that any such election or legislation will be required to settle the Victorian Constitutional difficulty. Probably we shall hear little more of it, but if its existence has done no other good, it has at least served to plaoe on historical record the all important fact that the Imperial government recognises to the fullest extent the right of the colonies to govern themselves, and will, if necessary, interfere so far as may be requisite to enable the will of the majority of the people to take effect. For thi£ all the colonies have reason to be thankful to Mr Berry'B boldness in "appealing] unto Guesar," and prosecuting the appeal in person with so great an amount of energy and. ability.