The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1873.

Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1196, 22 November 1873, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1873.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For-the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance,

And the good that we can do

Ert_ another issue of this journal reaches the eyes of our readers the electors of City East will have presented to them in nomination a goodly array of candidates from which to select three good men and true to represent their interests in the Provincial Council. We cannot but regret that we find all these names in competition; and sincerely rejoiced should we have been had thc3' been so distributed among other electorates that every one of them might

have been returned. The names indeed are such that the difficulty would be to select any respecting whom we should say that name ought to be omitted. But that difficulty is enhanced when we know that of those who have already made their bows to the electorate the one-half must! necessarily be rejected. We had hoped that certain of them would have come out for other constituencies, by which they would have been certainly returned, and that we as well as the electors of City East would have been spared the difficulty of expressing a choice. But whatever may be the views entertained respecting all the others, we do not hesitate to say that the electors of City East will be doing a wrong to themselves and a wrong to the province if they do not return the two candidates in the late Superintendcncy election, both of whom have made their^ obeisance at the solicitation of the most numerous and in-

(luential requisitionists enrolled for many a day in Auckland. That so Large a body of electors all over the province expressed their confidence in these two gentlemen is aguarantee that whatever may be peisonal feeling on the matter these two men have that in them which makes them capable of leaving footprints on the sands of time ; and we do not hesitate to say that the eyes of the whole of the province of Auckland will be turned to the City East electorate in this election, and that from end to end of the province it will be hailed with general satisfaction if by the grace of City East Messrs Lusk and Dargaville arc sent forward to aid by their counsels in the conduct* of the affairs of the province. With. Mr Williamson in the chair of Chief Magistrate, and these two, his late opponents, but now we believe his cordial and generous supporters in the Provincial Council, there will be a measure of satisfaction accorded to every elector of the province. City East has now an opportunity of doing a graceful act, and one that will be appreciated throughoutjthe length and breadth of the province. Besides this, in the possession of two such representatives that electorate will have a power, and exercise an influence in Council that will not be surpassed by any other. The experience which Mr Lusk has had during his long tenure of office will be of incalculable advantage in a Council containing so many new elements, and his familiarity with the' details of office will place him at once on a vantage ground, the benefits of which must exceedingly redound to the good of the constituency under his care. Mr Lusk has been unjustly blamed for the unpopular portion of one of the best Education Acts in New Zealand. That unpopular portion will very certainly be modified, and it will be to the benefit of the whole people if Mr Lusk's experience, painstaking and undoubted ability are continued, even though in the subordinate position of a private members in thelservice of the province. Mr Dargaville has done that which no man in the colony perhaps has ever paralleled. From a comparatively private position he has bounded into the political arena without a past or a party or a following ; and in polling upwards of two thousand electors, and in taking the second place in the political tournament, he has exhibited a force of character and qualities generally that should not be lost to the country. That he requires the schooling of political life was the taunt of his opponents. He now expresses himself prepared to undergo that schooling, and on the City East electors it devolves to afford the opportunity. With the experience and the caution and the prudence of Mr Lusk, and the daredevil "go" of Mr Dargaville, tho people of City East will be able "to talk to their

enemies in the gate 3." And while we do not presume to venture counsel as to the other candidates—several of whom we should sincerely regret to see absent from the Provincial Council —we trust our friends in City East will pardon us when we ask them to give Messrs Lusk and Dargaville to the Council and the country. We observe that influential men of every party and shade of opinion have signed the huge requisition of each, and we do sincerely trust that the call of these requisitions will be re-echoed from the ballot-box on polling day.