THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

Evening Star, Issue 4216, 31 August 1876, Page 2

THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

The following is a copy of, the resolutions framed by the committee for presentation at the meeting of the Caversham ratepayers to be held m the Drill shed, Carersham, this evening:-^ That those representatives who passed the Abolition Act were not elected to do so had no right to make any radical change in the constitution of the country—and the people of New Zealand are justified in resisting its being carried oui. That the abortive attempts of the Ministry to provide a measure of local government havo failed • that it is not proper to apprehend a great constitutional change whiohhas been impelled to its present course by a desire to pawn or sell the waste lands of the Province. ■•«••«» That the sudden cl ange in opinion which Welling, ton has often having produced in some ef our re. presentatvvcs convinces us that one centra 1 Government, with a large place—dispensing power, tends to corruption. That our representatives, Messrs Beaton and iJuma, be thanked for their action ontheSepara* won question, and be requested to advise the other Otago members, in the event of their failing to pre. serve for us the independence we enjoy under Provincial institutions, to return to the Province in a body, and we will support them in preserving our rights at all hazardß.