The Globe. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1876.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 708, 26 September 1876, Page 2

The Globe. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1876.

The Provincialist party in the House and the country, though in a hopeless minority, intend, it appears, to die hard. Every inch of ground has been contested. In Parliament they have succeeded in wasting three months of the session in party warfare. But like all unscrupulous men who are prepared to use any means within their reach, they have defeated their own ends. In the House their party has been a gradually diminishing one. In their blind rage at finding that a powerful majority in the House was opposed to them, they began the session with a blunder, and every succeeding step has been but a repetition of the same mistake. When all other arguments failed them, appeal after appeal was made to the House to pause before legislating, in opposition to the wish of nearly one half of the colony. On more than one occasion Mr. Macandrew waxed eloquent on behalf of United Otago, whose wishes, he assured the House, were being entirely overlooked. Meetings were got up in support of his assertion, but they were but poorly attended, and were most cases addressed by mere nobodies. But the bitterest cup which has yet been presented to the lips of the Superintendent of Otago was raised to them the other day, when over eight hundred of his own constituents addressed abetter of remonstrance to him and his colleagues, calling upon them to abandon tlioir present attitude of obstructive opposition, and set about solid work. Mr Macandrew has evidently taken this last step on the part of his constituents deeply toheart—so thoroughly taken aback was he first impulse evidently was to tender his resignation. But more crafty counsels have prevailed. The calmly expressed opinion of eight hundred citizens and electors of Dunedin is to be pitted against that of an excited public meeting which is to be called together to-morrow evening. The sensation is to be complete. Mr Macandrew and Mr Stout have departed to Dunedin, to aid in rousing public feeling, and the consequence no doubt wil! be that most bellicoße and sensational res Jutioss will fc© eaxm&» And what

then ? Mr Macandrew and those \ who are acting with him cannot shut their eyes to the fact that the electors of Dunedin, within one hundred of those who recorded their votes for Mr. Macandrew at the last election, have expressed disapproval of his recent conduct in the House. Much capital will no doubt be made, at the coming meeting, of the fact that the session hitherto has been a fruitless one, and is therefore a proof of the inability of Parliament to legislate for the whole colony. But whose fault is that ? Who are those who have been guilty of using the forms of the House to waste public money, and obstruct business ? Why the Provincialists themselves. How many thousands Sir G. Grey, Messrs. Macandrew, Stout, and Bees have cost the country, we are afraid to say. They have been delaying business, from week to week, in the hope of something turning up which might postpone Abolition for another year. But, like all unscrupulous men, they have overreached themselves, and this final appeal to the Dunedin mob, will no doubt be equally fruitless. If Sir George Grey and Mr. Eees could only he induced to depart North for a week or two, on a similar errand, the Souse might be able to transact more real business in the short time at their disposal, than it has been able to do for the three previous months.