MR CAT DWELL ON THE SEPARATION OF THE NORTHERN ISLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 299, 21 August 1865, Page 1

MR CAT DWELL ON THE SEPARATION OF THE NORTHERN ISLAND.

Ciom uie Xe'sou Coloa'il, 2'st Ju’y.] Some lime since the people of Auckland sent home to llie Queen praying for Separation of the North Island for some years. Mr Cardwell is opposed to such a measure, although it appeals that Sir George Grey himself considered it not only a feasible but a necessary arrangement, without which he deemed it impossible “to bring to a satisfactory termination the difficmies of the Colony.” Mr Cardwell settles this question by a decided mgative. In the despatch from which we have quoted in the foregoing article Mr Cardwell says—“ln the last part of their memorandum of the 30lh December your Advisers deprecate the division of the colony proposed in the resolutions of the Auckland Provincial Council, expressing their belief Unit such a measure would probably meet the determined opposition of every other part of the colony ; that it would take away the security fur the future of the Maori race, which depends on the influence of persons (in the southern provinces) removed from local passions and interests; and that it would destroy hopes of the future prosperity of New Zealand as au united colony, which are not unworthy of consideration on the part of the mother country. In forwarding to me the Auckland resolutions, you have, on the contrary, intimated your own opinion that ‘ unless some such arrangement is carried out, it will be imposible to bring to a satisfactory termination tbe difficulties prevailing in the colony,’ and you inform me that by the next mail you will transmit a full report upon tbe important question. In the expectation of receiving such a report from you, I will say no more than that her Majesty's Government see no reason, as at present advised, forgiving any encouragement to any such proposal.”