OUR METROPOLITAN EPISTLE. No. 2.

Dunstan Times, Issue 239, 23 November 1866, Page 3

OUR METROPOLITAN EPISTLE. No. 2.

As anticipated, the Moss Ministry resigned, and the Council has done literally nothing this week. Adjournments from day to day has been the order of this part of the session; and, indeed, lam inclined to think that the final upshot of the whole affair will bo a dissolution of the Council, and a general election. Matters arc fast hastening to a crisis ; this procednre is bringing Otago into eomtempt, and saddling a heavy burden on the country. The business of the Province is retarded, and Provincialism is fast going to its long home, to the grief of a numerous anny of stipendiaries, but to the great joy of every honest and honorable man. The only salvation of Otago lies in a fresh election and the exclusion of its present representatives. It is rumoured Mr Macandrew will Btand for tho superintendency; od tho 20th the old identities of BaMutba a:o to givo him a banquet for his faithful services at Wellington. Messrs Vogol and Driver Uavo Wen mooting their

Taieri constituents and explaining to them their peculiar views. At the next election, it is understood that Mr Dick will re-contest the Superintendency, It is I rumoured that Mr Mou.it or the Blue Spur, will he the chief .Secretary in the event of Mr Vogel succeeding in 1 is arduous attempt to form a -Ministry, whether Mr Mouat will consent to be pulled from behind a screen as an automaton, I cannot at present determine. This Colony wants an able minded and despotic Dictator of the Cromwell stamp, in fact, a Hercules, to reverse the present state of affairs. I may tell you that the annual ratal of the Corporation is to be 2s 8d per pound, exactly double of last year ; because, the valuation for 18a7 is less by L 70,000 than it "was in 1866. Well, matters are coming to a fine pass, and I am inclined to say — after the manner of Lord Lovat, who was beheaded in the Tower of London, for his loyalty to Charles at Culloden—"the more mischief the better sport. I cannot say I'm sorry for't." Mr Reynolds has been requested by his constituents to resign ; at the theatre he said he would resign if a requisition signed by twelve electors asking him to do so, were sent him. He has now got his love letter, and we shall see whether he will fulfil his promise. It is rtimored that Mr Dick has sent in his resignation for the Tort. Capt, O'Neil is acting as engineer to the village of Milton. You should S3iid them a requisition to give an account of their stewardship. Brutus said that many vile things were clone in the name of virtue—how many shams are perpetrated in the name of the miners! The table of the Council is groaning with petitions of grievances; and, if the business is allowed to progress, I shall acquaint your readers with the results. If reports be true, it is time, high time that certain discreditable affairs were thoroughly investigated and exposed to the public glare of criticism, for, as our English Bard says : " If such actions shall have pisiape fro?, licnu-slavcs and pagans shall our statesmen be."