The Daily Telegraph. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1883.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3809, 29 September 1883, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1883.

The reconstruction of tho Ministry has left Auckland unrepresented in the Cabinet, and it does not say much for the administration of public affairs in tho colony when to havo no representative in the Government of tho day is regarded as injurious to the best interests of a district. But it nevertheless is so, and has been so ever since 1871, when tho first public works loan taught the colony to look upon public money as children do sugar plums—something to bo scrambled for. To bo unrepresented in the Cabinet means inattention to the wants of a district, and the refusal of that which to another is granted as a matter of course. That has boon the treatment of Hawko's Bay in general and of Napier in particular. By the resignation of Mr Whitaker Auckland naturally fears similar treatment, and the Evening Star does not overstato tho situation when it says:—" The question is one that admits of neither explanation nor parleying. Mr Oliver's appointment fills the only vacancy in tho Cabinet, aud no further appointment can be made unless some of tho present members choose to retire. Tho new Minister has taken tho placo vacated by Mr Whitaker, and that seat longed to Auckland. Let the Ministry, therefore, hark back or accept the united opposition of every Auckland member. Truly this is a pretty ending of the famous compactof the ' Auckland four,' which was guarantor! to secure two Auckland portfolios in the Ministry and other untold advantages. At a moment when tho whole future of tho North is in jeopardy—when the bulk of our lands may bo shut up at tho bidding of a Minister — when the route of the North Island trunk railway is to be settled, wo find ourselves left without a single voice in a, Cabinet dominated by Wellington influence. The situation is one of profound gravity, and if ever tho united and determined action of the people was called for it is called for now. . A littlo breathing space should perhaps be allowed our representatives time to decide upon their course of action and take tho lead in tho impending crusade, and then in Newton, in City North, in Waitemata, in our Chamber of Commerce, and through every recognised avenue of public opinion the people of Auckland must make their voices heard. The business of the electors with their representatives is of tho most simple kind— they must havo this wrong righted or givo placo to men who will. Wo do not believe there is one elector in Newton, in City North, or in Waitemata who will listen'to a member who does not first of all emphatically declare his determination to use every means at his disposal to eject from offico a Government which lias shut Auckland out of tho councils of the colony. There should be no temporising or equivocation. All that tho electors havo to demand of their representa-t" lives is summed up in half-a-dozen words—• ' Got Auckland fairly represented or resign.' We believe this cry will ring at mass meetings from one end of the province to tho other. The Ministry have by their conduct put their Auckland followers in a position which can only be understood on tho theory that they have a poor estimate of their intelligence and independence. Wo do not understand what their reasons may bo for calculating on such willing subserviency, but wo mistake the men and still moro mistake their constituencies if they aro not speedily undeceived."