The Evening Star. WITH WHICH ARN IMCORPORATND. The Evening News and the Morning News. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1875

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1710, 11 August 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star. WITH WHICH ARN IMCORPORATND. The Evening News and the Morning News.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1875

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O tjr parliamentary news is so bulky to-day that we have no space for comment. We would, however, draw special attention to Mr Pyke's reason for supporting the bill. This he rightly regards as the last and necessary stand for the land compact of 185 G. We notice that the challenge thrown down in last night's Star to our morning contemporaries with reference to the shameful finance of the Government measures in relation to this province, has been followed by an article in the Herald, extending and endorsing our remarks to the fullest extent. "Unless,'' says our contemporary, "the details of the bill be very materially altered it will do to this province the greatest wrong done to it since the Land Revenue Resolutions in ISoG, and the Act of 1858 by which these resolutions were followed. To Auckland our first duty, and the first duty of the Auckland members is owing, and to the prosperity, the influence, and the whole future of Auckland the bill as it now stands will inflict a serious blow." **** "The expenditure of the land revenue in the past has increased the population of those provinces, their influence, and the number of their representatives in the Assembly. The exclusive possession of the land revenue in the future will have the same effect in a still more marked degree. Their pace will be accelerated ; ours will be retarded, until we sink into comparative insignificance, unless this great wrong be remedied. To it we beg the earnest attention of our Superintendent, of our members, and of the Government.'' We are glad to notice the restoration of a healthy tone in the Herald's view of the measure which, on Saturday last, it would have had Sir George Grey and the other Auckland members facilitate to the utmost. There is no likelihood whatever of the Government accepting any alteration in committee to remove an injustice which forms the very basis on which the measures rest. We believe the only hope of preventing the mischief is that which the Opposition seem to contemplate—steady and systematic obstruction until an appeal can be made to the people, upon whose matured decision the settlement should be permitted to rest.