AUCKLAND POLITICS.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2760, 21 December 1871, Page 3

AUCKLAND POLITICS.

The Provincial Council of Auckland has followed the example of our Council, which at Mr Ecid’s dictation, in one eventful session, attempted to arrogate to itself the right to say whether or not measures passed by the General Assembly should be brought into operation in the Province. Mr Creighton, fresh from his legislative labors iu another place where, as all the world knows, he almost made himself as ridiculous as Mr Collins, the member for Collingwood —tabled in the Auckland Provincial Council a resolution, professedly aimed at the General Government. The Auckland correspondent of the Daily Times, with his keen faculty for distorting facts, has given a version of the debate which took place on the resolution, which is only remarkable for two things—its gross inaccuracy, and the excellent manner in which the writer’s views are a-«t forth. The reports of the debate in all the local papers show that the whole subject was treated in a very off-band way, and that instead of Mr Creighton and Mr Mackay having m ide admirable speeches, the reverse was the case. A correspondent of the Hawke's Bnj Herald, whose veracity is at all events equal, if not superior, to that of the correspondent of our morning contemporary, says ef the same subject: — “ Our Provincial Council has been in session from the 22nd ultimo. The opening proceedings were in no sense remarkable, unless the absence of angry matter from His Honor’s speech is considered as such. Already the Council has got through some useful legislation, though much time has been frittered, and the Council baa made itself rather ridiculous by sitting in judgment as it were on measures passed elsewhere. This ‘tempest iu a teapot’ was got up by Mr Creighton. It will hardly, perhaps, have the effect he imagines, seeing that here, as elsewhere, the vagaries of ultra provincialism simply create disgust. Mr Mackay has aired his opinions on the native policy of the ‘powers that be.’ He thinks that, instead of opening up the intciior by roads radiating from Taupo to all the North Island provinces, a highway should be immediately commenced, terminating don’t laugh ! at Tokaugamutu ! ! plainly interpreted, this means ‘ war to the knife’ with the King party, and, perhaps, with every native in this island. This is the precious policy that H to make ns happy and flourishing. To cirry it out, it is- supposed that Messrs Gillies and Mackay would have to be ‘ sent for.’” _____