PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 81, 14 November 1874, Page 8

PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES.

**„„ * 1.1 j Auckland, Nov. 3. The Auckland newspapers are now full of Sir George Grey's protest for upholding the Provinces and securing Federal Government to this Colony. By a curious coincidence, the same number of our Herald which gave Sir George Grey's "State document," so highly lauding Federal Governments, contained the announcement that General Grant was about to retire from th« Presidency of the United States— erieved and disgusted at the universal prevalence of corruption which he had D 0 £7^ ?h? h A ck> But the United Sfcllteß constitute an old and model Federal Government. Therefore Federal Government, on the store of public virtue cannot be very desireoble, whatever other recommendations they may have. When I read the windy war, the old couplet comes to my memory •

For forms of Government, let fools contest That whioh is best administered is" best.