MR A BLACK ON THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS !

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1709, 10 August 1875, Page 2

MR A BLACK ON THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS !

(To the Editor of the Evening Sxae.) Sir -I cannot conceive what Mr. Wilson's Scy is- H« was one of the thre^L* ha* went down to the Kawau to solicit Sir George Srlv to be nominated for Superintendent, anTto be a member of the House ot Kepresentatives. He was his seconder for the House of Representativeß, and at that time he would go in for anything that Sir George proposed. Sir George said that he could not So these things himself, but with help he could make measures better for the province of Auckland. He has done so, for if it were not for Sir George Grey we should not get so much out of the Mmisterial abolition scheme noT I-see that Otago.Customs and other revenues yielded most for the support of the Government, Auckland is next and Canterbury third; but when a distribution of the money takes place Auckland is put in a third Son, although she is second in support Sf the Government. I hope Sir George will nail his colours to the mast-head, and Auckland expects that every member will do his duty to the province. Are we not living on borrowed money, and paying salaries out oi it ? A clay of reckoning is approaching, lne no'licv of Ministers is good for an election, fhe truth is looming. Had we not threeeights of the customs revenue, and that was taken away. Then we got a capitation of forty shillings, and that was taken away, and we were to receive fifteen shillings, and that was stopped on account of railway. Now, what confidence can you have in men who will turn round with the wind ? What can we expect if we give our liberty away and be ruled from Wellington by a man that has no interest with us, and is not responsible to us-only to the Ministry that put him there. So think well before you give the privilege away, whether any guarantee is given that they will act honestly to the nrovince. I think the Herald is afraid that Sir George Grey will make a sub-audit committee to strike on the money bags of the bank Sir, I would like to kaow what has become of the committee that was to watch the interest of the province?—l am, etc., A. Biaok.