The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATND. The Evening News and the Morning News. THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1875

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1711, 12 August 1875, Page 2

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

THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1875

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The other day we warned those good gentlemen who talked so glibly of votes of censure, and who endeavoured to make capital in Wellington out of their mighty intentions, that the electors would probably claim the right of thinking and acting for themselves ; and the melancholy spectacle at last nigat's meeting in Parnell of a dozen hands in favour of the Government proposals against the forest and uproarious cheering for the policy supported by Mr Reader Wood bears testimony to the truth that great swelling words are not always borne out by mighty deeds We trust the Wellington correspondent of the Cross will again feel it his duty to find out Mr Wood and shew him his telegram, explaining what became of the vote of censure that was to have been ; and we also trust that Mr Reader Wood will not on this occasion be so overcome as to leave the dinner table prematurely. We need not here go over the arguments employed by the several speakers last night, which are fully reported in to-day's issue. The same unsupported assertion which has characterised newspaper articles and speeches on the Government side, was reproduced in the utterances of the advocates of the Government bills last night, and contrasted most unfavourably with the facts and figures which were conspicuous in the speeches of those who can only see in the so-called abolition, a more obnoxious form of provincialism than that which it supercedes. On no occasion have we heard Mr Lusk speak to such advantage. Labouring in the outset v nder unfavourable manifestations of the fact that the education rate still rankled in the memories of his hearers, he gradually gained the ear of the meeting and ultimately carried it enthusiastically along with him as facts and arguments wereadducedwhich admitted of no dispute. Hisspeechwasundoubtedly the best analysis of the jugglery of the Government measures that has yet been made. Altogether, the electors of Parnell last night proved themselves worthy of the privi" leges they enjoy. They gave unmistakable evidence that whatever may be their views iof the necessity for Constitutional changes they are not swayed by blind unthinking prejudice; they recognised the. fact that the question before the country is a great one which should be well weighed, and measured by the light of experience—one which could only be dealt with fairly by the matured judgment of the people ; and they placed on record their protest against that unnecessary and indecent haste which would deprive them of both the opportunity and right to think. We venture to assert that this is the opinion of nine-tenths of the people of this province. Such a meeting as that last night will afford great encouragement to the Superintendent and his party, and we think it is incumbent on the people of the city and other suburbs to adopt similar modes of giving expression to their views.