THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

Evening Star, Issue 4233, 20 September 1876, Page 4

THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

A meeting was Kel^ S iu"Wofnington Hall feet night Smatedlthat about .fifty residents were M.H.B. for the strict : ¥ow »*>* fafeg my people's views "JWsMWfe, £ j£y* would back to to of Ckirns'B men, ■*£ othertfAifciraient ( d»at the country fiwrtß «e c^relefs 9 and that 4o not rejpretfentthe wishe* •'o*r con- | people *?»ot take aetioa now, I tell you «HaHm»e ta In*~mint, gone-never.to.relurn, unless doled Z»i»rt me I am here for SfSmtlw rabreji aye, and TongßrTif -necessary, t<* «i« u.«m to xr&m 'Those of onr memriers determined to

dar«d carried by 22 agiinat 4 : «mtitutional to the bast interests of Otago, and_bhat the action of the •arermnent in { en&adoring T t« force npon The rest of the resolution a°w%rV6a?fHett M. Co-«&atid M'N^7' f:r ii£ ; • - - iWe»tt>h* ©f tßo^Pr«viß6e ! f# «Uid' re*enue -.a»d tn»lt«;rail,wayirevetMi*, in aonnflitMß sphere, lapd% ( ■.■:•■;,., .•; flEhaAlhe, General •G.qTerpni.ent in, nroviaW a'form'of government Acceptable to the ftis^4tftm^fnlfy J c6rfthra ; fn the; jesolntions proposed by Mr Macaudrew.a'nfPin tbd •vent of the Assembly f agree to those r esflntioto, i**Ur*e advisable J(ofc of m.tie subject, aiiSrWto m. WrinKia&eaA' I 1 .Farther; <ik e*prß9«latf>. its thanks to;a«J*9p*Meatttfie«B-iofr oianFragnrfte fox the noble stand they-have made in resisting l to' ahf'JtFjk «x»y may think neoeM^ ; o r f our 6raßta3«i(gria2rigti.tß. TnaiTShe foregoing fesolntions he forwarded to oar me?uber.' Mr A. J. Burns, wiftfonr entiro approval Jjf.'HttaWofi'ffi the sb££ anofot»€fidfe'ii!Q(BtMfthe futare, trusting it T&MotoSf l *; encouragement to «x»rt himself 0 9ifift'* b l?i? :1 i??? e " ton3 oc "

"Wellington, Bept»mh£rll£nß*6. fkmtlemen,— My attebtion'has letter, which it ix allege«P i yon org to .forward me by to-morrow's steamer from -Dtttte&b; tfiSl itfiwhioh y»» express your opinions 6nrbhe!politi«»l situation I*V|S somewhat remarkable rtlufc the eomplaints you now make as to the House j9 Representatives of Iffew Zealand are_ precisely ttf« aama a* r fhpse many o"L*.yc>u.. wero., Jtoflt to nuke of Otero, and in resafeotlnftt tsihieh yon hare gone iafor the abolition of the latter. I need ■imifAr cure applied to the former. Ton say that yon ore wiojSed barren and of'thi^oftssfjion-—feelir.ys •which I mosTs heartily reciprocate—and you think it is high time that aU the members of the House •ombined to put a.atop to personalities, wrangljngs, aaft factions obe'traetions, and "address themselves trtriotly to the business of the country. I am;irDt aware that the arils you enumeiate.havo been peculiarly the ,j?raefttwasipn pi Par-liament,-rib* £o4 thlnK tnaWoirtrM&d Wdsitton to jjudge correctly as tb'the'motives which influence men who areisen japed inl SdnstitutioDal struggle. I should have been glad to hare been informed asitowhat is deemed ©f the'oountry."'' So far as I can comprehend it, ** the businear.ofc*toe oountrT>"i*BwtoJ>PJitted to the Legislature by the present Government consists ebiefly of that those measures -which ha« for their object the aggrandisement at'the erpesfie of ©unedin.jthe despoiling of the people of Otngo of their Jboal j»v«Bue«nd of those powers-of local--self-gov rnmentJfht&l£*gtnrsto;hopG TEey tftU EWfcr part with, "if this is " thp x busine£S.jqf the o 'UntTy " to which you would have us a'daress onrselvrs, I confess the advice comes with very had gracs from Dunedin. Eelnhoi: that the letter in question has emanated from a 'esire to npho^t&ftTMeeentr&oy.enpft»efct [QßittfyQtSgfa° are supporting them in their reckless determination t» pull down the Constitution, and ride rou«h-shod •ver the rights and privnecre's' of'-those who seek to npholdit. The letter has, I feel peisnaded, been iiMlvertaently • sfgiiea b'yl many-, whp: 'H&a r 'no ; , syrfpkvejijnjy tdCaad ttjafaf aspired it could 1 oe regarded as'exponents, of the, wishes of the majority, or oven of any constdera'tte «DctiopiQ6tho*itißens!ofc once relinquish-my seat.in the Assembly^—l am, &e.,