OTAGO.

Marlborough Press, Volume I, Issue 1, 6 January 1860, Page 3

OTAGO.

Otago, after having been for a number of years from her formation, one of the feeblest settlements in the colony, scarcely progressing at all, has suddenly developed resources of the richest kind, previously ignored, and has attracted a stream of population to occupy her waste lands. It is with an evident knowledge that an essential change has commenced, that Captain Cargill, the venerable leader and governor of the infant settlement, addressed to the Provincial Council of Otago his farewell speech. Not Otago alone; hut all New Zealand will do we well to keep in mind the parting words of the veteran colonist: — “ In connection with the working out of our Constitution—the charter of civil and religious liberty for ourselves and our posterity—every man ought to register and to make conscience of his duty. The tax upon his time is very small, and that tax being paid, lie will have tlie reward within himself and in.the good of the community. * * * Leaving party strife and contentious oratory to those who have a taste for them (and they are useful in their own way), if other men, each in his own place and way, and, to the host of his judgment, will simply do their duty, our constitution will be honoured, and the solid interests eff the community made sure.”

One of the last acts of the Council was to provide for an addition to the one to succeed it, and to readjust the representation to suit the increased number of electors, and the changes which, in anew country, are always occurring.