BURSTING A BUBBLE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 372, 21 April 1876, Page 3

BURSTING A BUBBLE.

The. .latest ■.politipjai , bubble ..burst sadly last Ebalij''Mr!' Macanvdyew seems to have'been uhkind': 1 visit of the Oomihissioriers was ' for ''so■very! little:"- They' merely sought -an advanced dessdn"iii 'useful (knowledge.. The \personhel. of ■ the. nCommission,. was, so modest, so prim, even indeed,,in"; clinbd to Provincialism, i.e., so long as .Provincialism Was 'worth': inclining'to.:; Thei instructions. too;W[eu.e. sq respectful'and' defQr.entiaL v intendent play so sorry a tiitor ? The object of sending these three eminently"' respe'ctabTe' bid l 'getitl&men' round the Colony ;was not .a.riy, jinformat|ion;tbey. .could gather, neither was it to cheer and,console, the Provincial Auditors,'so Wbon'tbbe bereft';6f!'eonjpioyment.:•• i could-;;have been;gathered,by letter : Consolation ' could 1 hfavd take'n / niore ;Th4 object was an attempt-'to assume '& ylctory, and on the strength of the Assumption to obtain"thir prestige of ,ap j'apparent taking possession. Sir fjJiuiitiS pretence ''that vernment felt hound, by: the exact wording of the -Ab'dirtibtf 'Bill to be j-re'ady to absorb the Provincial services ;one day after the close of the next ses-.-sioja of the Assqmbly,, when the Provinces ceased to" exist,' cannot be char'ac<jerised in print as i_t_deserves to be. The facts are still fresh in the memory ,'pfjthe peeple. t :,When.it was .the determined ProvinbialistV in" the House were not to be beaten, by force, 'more conciliatory action was attempted. 'A |confer'en«e'.wn,s agreed !,bemg;appointed,on, suit of which was that the Bill was al.lb wed to pass on condition that its real p.Pwers should not come into force until! titoe-'Colony had-h'aditime-to;.endorsie, : or:refuse it?..;,Atat^e-i-s^mp,;time: the,, Cbnference,. recpgnispd j the.jiocegsity of' giving the Government, power %o ap'"pi'opriate revenue for'general''services [( irlj the interval. To'staltb that a Bill : so| passed by arrangement to be re■'yipwed by the people'cm the hustings ■isjalaw so : -infaliibly..-binding that it '&,ust be .prac'ticaTly enfbrcpd'before the .Assembly elec'tecl specially • it'meets at all is to ,: rbpndiate in every :pirticular the Conference agreed to. ■■' J JfcJuch an act, so treacberously sup- ■ ported.^y^the,bbnd.followers ot!,Cfesar ;ie| Otago, who "have" dropped their'first all,in all^the ; C9 f mpac,t of ISsG,—who. 'have .also.,let ,go lp'calisatibn of railway : revenue they stickiecl'.ior as '%ble :;: -\v i hb Woiild give themselves body ahd soul to Vogel if told to do so aß'd-* paid for,it.; —is. or should be sufficient i : to set the people bf dtagb, whose'ex-1 ptessed voice y is^insulted,.(pxcept at and "Port 4 "''Chalmers) on I their guard in considering any conces.slqn^.offered.iw^^ ■retain the sole power of government' ■"'ip. Wellington. f; v o '; j Mr. Macandrew's letter to the Pre'inier shatters. tHis'uCentral 'carLof Jug;gernaut fearfully. Nothing in the way 'of political prestige cata-'nowbe gained •'byV'thp, UriaL, Hepp,,visitation , ;no.w ( sorrowfully departed.' : "Tliey 'ca.tn6 ; t'p/ ponsole Mr. We., hope ; he consoled'them.''