MR. MACANDREW'S LETTER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 118, 10 May 1876, Page 4

MR. MACANDREW'S LETTER.

i The following extracts from two up> country journals in Otago show what is thought in .the out-districts of. that - province of the position taken up by

$he Superintendent in connection with, ithe aboliiiotv question :— : Ae we thought, the visit of the three Commissioners was too bitter a pill for the. provincial authorities to swallow, arid they have -even refu«ed to iwaliow Jt. We admire bis fjonor's pluck in resenting it, 'and only feel sorrow that bo good & man should Be found adyp/>. bating so bad a cause. Provincialism, Notwithstanding that the new Parliament has not ratified the Abolition Bill* - iadead, its requiem has loojgjince been Bung^and^we can on}y; wonder thas jthe jOtago Executive fail to appreciate the fcreatngood the 'colony will' iekpßFi«face when Pr6vinci»lGoTefnmebt^wili only remain /ta, us ,a« a nUtter of .history. ;»;.r.!.;Thef Superintendent and lie Executive hare done ft suioidal act in refusing information- to the General Grovefnmefit oomfnissiqnersV and j the province will not- endorse, it, and w«r jwtl\ tes} J>M >Hbnor,!;MivEioriaid JfSfol Mr Green,' Mr M'^Kellar, and other BatelliteV^f the Council, that 'plaoe^nd pay are gone from tljem, for ever, and jthat by their action they nave rendered themselves detestable, While the injury committed upon the people: of ..Ocago will never he effaced. If i Dunedin is up in arms against tn* Colonial Eirfcu--the poj^otVy districts '*s not, and the pplicy, initiated by Sir ifuliu?' Vagel will find innumerable supporter*. 3)o something the General' Government must, or the people will Ibae confidence in th9ia.'—Z>unßtant Times. \ We always held the 'opinion that ; Mr iMacaodre w /possessed 'good business abilities,, .although marred by artfulness ; and we could not have imagined that a {document so 'illogical, ehort-sightod, and. 80 . replete with bafefaced misstatement §6]}td have, come from Tiis pen as is' his recent letter to the Premiers ;. : ; v Otftgo is evidently New Zealand with Mr Macihdrew. '■ If be unequivocally Contended for it& being prectod into a separate, independent colony, with himself at : its head, iwe pould understand him, however impracticable such a riieaflur^ be. But to expect that Otago, an integral part of a colony with representative government, cijm be differently dealt with from the rest of the colony isi absurd. Mr Matjendrew is not our law-giiter, jand b« must obey the laws of the Icountry or be cast aside. ; , J . -, ; For our part we have no doubt of the Abolition Apt) being, [brought into Operation, notwithstanding the misrepresentations of Mr Macandrelw, and the grandiloquen t w»tions (delivered at rural leagues; and with this ; assurance we rest satisfied.-^ Wetttrn Star,