THE LAND FUND AND THE EDUCATION RESERVES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 369, 31 March 1876, Page 3

THE LAND FUND AND THE EDUCATION RESERVES.

Dunedin ' Evening News. 1 Those in Otago who so long worshipped the Premier must now, if they are true to the Province, begin to regret their past adoration. The Wanganui speech clearly shows that the Land Fund and the Education Beserves are both gone. "Was anything ever disengenuous as this method of treating the 1856 Compact. The Premier has forgotten the ladder by which he mounted to power. He has kicked it away. He who was placed in power by the Provincial party is the one who now sneers at the Superintendents and - Provincial Executives. He who once demanded separation will now resist it to the death. He who proclaimed that the profits on the railways, and the losses, if any, should be charged to the Province in which either occurred, now wishes the Bailways Act to be repealed. But what need of pointing out that Sir Julius Vogel has left the party who made him Premier, and become more centralist than the most ultra member of that party. Everything is to be managed from Wellington, and the Province that has a land revenue, or railway profits, or educational reserves, must see them used for general colonial purposes. We warn the Otago members that unless they fight hard and in unison the revenues of the Province will be swept away from it, and its industry and prosperity paralysed, if not crushed.' In the face of the Wanganui speech, we feel that it is incumbent on the Superintendent to at once call a convention ;of the members of the Provincial Council, and to devise some method of -meeting the wholesale plunder that the Premier advocates. If for the mere purpose of obtaining the delegated powers under the Goldfields Acts, Mr. Vogel advocated all measures legal or illegal, constitutional or unconstitutional ; surely in defending our rights we can follow such a laudable precedent. Let thero be no half hearted work. The descendants of those who showed so great determination in Cromwell's days should not be afraid of a Premier.