BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3773, 29 March 1875, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

„ Auckland, March 27. Sir George Grey was elected to the Assembly for City West without opposition. In a speech he referred to. the complaints against him for stirring up Provincial jealousies, and said it was the old stoiy of the wolf and the lamb When other Provinces threatened to abolish Auckland, they commenced the war, and surely he could not be blamed for informing the people what rights the Constitution conferred upon them. As regarded Wellington, i> must always be the great city, owing to the possession of an excellent harbor, and the fine land between there and New Plymouth which would be opened up by railways. Th ’ question of capital he considered a very small one. He spoke of the excellent land in the Province of Auckland as certain to secure permanent prosperity. He likened the General Assembly procedings at Wellington to Dickens’s description -of Nova Scotia legislation, “ like looking at the British Parliament when at the wrong end of the telescope.” He saw nothing at all in the present system to deserve its continuance. Since he had been in office, he had found that large sums of money had been withheld from the people’s uses. If Auckland had what she was entitled to, she would still be able to can y on public works successfully. He spoke of the L 60,000 voted for roads in the north. He asked whether it was right for a man, absent and representative of nobody, to take upon himself to direct the expenditure of that money, while he returned by 14,000 colonists, should not be thought worthy to have a vote in the toa.ter He recommended that the General Assembly should meet at once, and that Auckland should be granted what she is entitled to. Without Mr Vogel, the present Government would fall to pieces directly. _ Was it right that the interests of the colonists should be sacrificed for one man. He said he would resign at any time, if called upon by a majority of his constituents.