PKOIUBLE ACTION OF TEE ASSEMBLY. — THE POLITICAL POSITION. — SIR GEOEGE GHEY's

PROCLAMATION

The ensuing session of the Assembly, either during its sitting in Auckland, or at the adjournedmceting proposed to take place at Wellington, will be the most important that has ever been held in New Zealand. Jhe policy of Great Britain towards tho Colony has been one of inconsistency and injustice combined, and now when we are threatened with being made the victims of Imperial mismanagement in an Imperial war, when we aro threatened with the responsi bility for a heavy debt which we never in curred, and when these threats aro backed by an expressed intention to withdraw the troops, the time has surely come when the relations existing between the mother coun try and the Colony should be placed on a fresh basis. This the Assembly has to do, and a national party already in embryo will be formed thero to put forth a really national policy. Of a verity there is need for prompt and decided action. During the interregnum that followed the resignation of the Ministry, when the country was without a Govern- 1 ment, and ere the Assembly could meet, Sir George Grey, in defiance of his Ministry, issued the following proclamation.
" A Proclamation. " By His Excellency Sir George Grey Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Go vernor and Commander-in-Chief in and over her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies and Vice- Admiral of the same, &c., &C, &G.
