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Evening Star, Issue 3820, 22 May 1875, Page 2

The Auckland Provincial Seoietary will not have much improved the attitude the Council has already taken on the abolition question, even if his antidote resolutions are carried through without amendment. He only echoes a very general cry for delay, which no party is unwilling to grant. No constitutional changes of any magnitude will be proposed until the people are fully informed of their nature. What “ample tame” necessary for general enlightenment may be interpreted to mean, cannot bo guessed. Such ample time will probably, be best defined to be starvation point. There does not appear the smallest chance of any abolition resolutions being dealt with during the ensuing session. It is hardly clear whiat position Auckland will ntia itself in at tke end of the six months for which supplies are being appropriated by the Council. It can hardly be expected that by that time the new Parliament will have met: good progress will have been made if it is even then elected. The concluding part of the resolutions, “That any such constitutional changes should apply to the whole Colony, and not to any particular part thereof,” is sure to be acceptable to the local Council. Nothing beyond assertion has, however, yet hi m shadowed forth why this should be so. The proposal made last year, although pointing to ultimate onion of the whole Colony, was merely a lower step—a following up of the union of Southland aud Otago. On a thoroughly reliable basis, even if Colonial unity were projected, the result need not lie such an object of terror as it is often made te appear. At the present time there is no such project, and, in the absence of the Premier, no strong constitutional change need be anticipated.