New Zealand Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4821, 4 September 1876, Page 2

New Zealand Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4.

The Dunedin papers, with full reports of the political meeting recently held there,' are to hand. The reports as to the at r tendance at the meeting differ materially, so do the comments on its results. Some accounts place the attendance at 600 or 800, others at 1000, others at 1800. The truth seems to be that some 800 persons were present. The comments upon the results claim either a glorious victory for the cause of the people, or deprecate the somewhat violent character of the resolutions arrived at. As to the .enthusiastic nature of the meeting there can be no question; Mr. Fish, who endeavored to speak in a direction contrary to the opinions of those present, was scarcely accorded a hearing. One orator was forcibly removed, and the supporter of ,an amendment bad to test the strength of his political convictions by an appeal to the ordeal of personal combat in the rear of the drillshed, the place in whioh the meeting was held. The resolutions; arrived at by the meeting have been already telegraphed throughout the colony, and are simply , so many assertions that everything in Otago belongs to Otago, and that a good deal outside Otago belongs to her too. The meeting agreed to all this with a unanimity that was quite charming. Anything like the idea of a national property in railways was scouted with the contempt it deserved, and a glorious protest was entered against Otago being in any respect an integral part of New Zealand, except in so far as she might claim to get all she could out of the rest of the colony. The committee which organised the meeting is now sitting in permanence, to watch the action of Parliament, and a great deal of practical good must be the result.