AUCKLAND OPINION OF AUCKLAND MEMBERS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1788, 13 November 1879, Page 3

AUCKLAND OPINION OF AUCKLAND MEMBERS.

i The “ Star ” of Saturday has an article on • the stop taken by the Auckland members in i joining the Ministerial party. It observes i that all thef e members must have felt strongly 1 bound by ties that held them to the party with which they had been They must have seen before them the certainty of tacit, if not warm, approval in remaining with the Opposition, and risks amounting to almost certainty of strong disapprobation in adopting the ct urse they have pursued. Only very strong motives could have induced them to throw over all those ties, and venture on the course which was certain to excite feelings of antagonism. All cannot have been movei by the expectation of office, and Reader Wood, it was shown in debate last night, was assured of office, if he remained with the Macandrew party. Touchthe charges of perfidy, it says : —“ Perfidy began when the Cabinet itself began to scheme against its chief, and succeeded by means of the pliant Pyke in forcing him into humiliating retirement, which it was considered good policy to declare openly would bo permanent, and that he would bo debarred from taking office in any Ministry. Maoandrow, though an admirable member for Otago, finds that ho has placed himself in a false position, and that he can no more hold his party together than ho could have created it, or is qualified to lead it.” Proceeding to analyse the motives that actuated the Auckland members, the “ Star ” further says : —“ The fact that a practical man like the member for Newton considered it to be in the interest of the colony to take this step, will carry great weight with the electors, as it appears to have done with Auckland members. The stop has been a bold and decided one, and, like all actions of the kind, will provoke strong admiration on the one hand, and equally strong disapprobation on the other, and will bo praised or blamed a good deal in proportion to its success. We believe all the members are acting under a sincere and strong belief that they will further the cause of right, and it is the duty of all the members to unite in doing that.”