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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 328, 30 November 1865, Page 1

Mb JxTLiTrs Vogel on Sepaeation. —Mr Yogel met his constituents at Waikouaiti, on the 13th inst. After a few preliminary observations, he came to the question of Separation. He had always been an earnest advocate for it. There were four kinds of Separation. The first two were a total Separation of the Government of the two Islands, either with or without the destruction of the present Provincial Institutions. The third was the consolidation of the Provincial Governments in each island into one, with a Federal union between the islands. The fourth was the strengthening the present provinces, reducing their number by the absorption of the new provinces, and maintaining a Federal union between them in the shape of a General Government the functions of which would be materially modified. The first two plans were now, he feared, in some measure hopeless. Had they been striven for when he first advocated Separation, New Zealand would have been as prosperous now as it had become the reverse. The third plan—the consolidation of the provinces of each island into one—he had advocated last session. Since then

the bitter aud arrogant spirit displayed by Canterbury bad materially modified his views, and he was inclined to go in for the fourth plan, which as they knew, bad been mooted by Mr Macandrew. Substantially it would give them five provinces, each developed into a small colony, with a Federal union, and an inexpensive General Government. In the end it might be expected if this plan were adopted, that gradually the provinces would consolidate. He could give no more present pledge than this, that all his energies would be directed towards procuring such a measure of Separation as would end the liability of the Mid die Island for native wars and native government. (Cheers.) He would suggest that native affairs should be made a Provincial, not a General Government'matter. So only could the Middle Island liability b 6 ended and the North Island be made to understand in governing the natives it must keep within its means. Let them look what the Middle Island had done. It was asked in the first instance to become a party to a three million loan, one million, of which was to be devoted to war expenses. Nearly the whole of the three millions had gone, and in addition the late government had asked them to consent to Stamp Duties, to impound a portion of the Provincial Customs Revenue, and the Land Revenue was more than once menacingly threatened. The action he had taken in the Assembly was mainly addressed to the point of resisting in every practicable way the encroachments the late government were attempting to make upon the Middle Island for further war contributions beyond the three million loan.—Otago Daily Times.

Weather in Australia. —There have been copious showers of rain in Australia, which the Sydney Morning Herald says will compensate for the late drought; which from its long continuance had caused great dismay throughout the country. A Parliamentary report laid before the Assembly in Adelaide states that in the year ended 30th September, 1865, 233,000 sheep, and 28,000 cattle died on the northern runs of South Australia.

An “ Unfortunate Man.” — A Wellington paper states that Mr Small, on of Thatcher’s company, and who is celebrated for his comical impersonation of the “Unfortunate Man,” has purchased an estate near Featherstone, with homestead and houses attached, where ha intends to settle down.