The Hawke's Bay Times. NAPIER, WEDNESDAY, 10th MAY, 1865.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 263, 10 May 1865, Page 2

The Hawke's Bay Times. NAPIER, WEDNESDAY, 10th MAY, 1865.

After the exciting topics of the campaign, the native question; and the legion of others of a general nature that have for so long a period engaged the attention of the colonial press in common with durfelves, we find it Something of a-pleasure to he; called by cirto the, consideration of an affair ' Of a purely provincial r‘- f

Of course we shall be understood to refer to the opportunity once again placed in the hands of the electors of returning to the council of the province two good and true men to represent their interests and opinions. Although it is now well known that we are far, very far, from approving the general policy of the present Government,.we are net bitter political partisans. We conceive ThT the contrary that all that it is possible to gam for our fellow-settlers is to be obtained through calm reasoning, maintaining always a firth’ uncompromising ' attitude ’ in f our struggles for right, avoiding- all personalities or exhibitions of enmity against any, which can only tend to delay, if. not entirely^prevent, the accomplisraent of our desires. It is well known that we have always consistently exposed the-many—abuses-exist«-ing in the administration of our affairs, and advocated a policy of retrenchment and economy in the expenditure of the public money, the diverting of much that is at present absorbed in the pensioning of relatives and favorites of parties in power by means of office, in two channels more to the public advantage than those that are often useless and sometimes even mischievous in their effects upon the province , offices to which the fitness of the official is not considered, neither its necessity nor its utility to the public, but only whether their creation can he made a means of sending a stream of the public money into the pockets of a favorite. The opportunity now offered to the electors bean no relation to that of a general election, inasmuch as the Government will still hold a good working majority, even should we be able to return two uncompromising opponents of their system; but we must remember the utility of a protest by a majority, however small, against the perpetration of a wrong, and try to secure such a minority, or rather to strengthen the hands of that already existing. In our advertising columns will he found a notice by our fellow townsman, J. MStuart, Esq., of his intention to stand for one of the vacant seats, and we have, amongst several other names, heard that of Mr Buchanan as a candidate for the other. We trust that the latter may prove correct, and we may add that we believe both of these gentlemen possess the confidence of the community, and may rest assured of success.