THE AUCKLAND PRESS ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5794, 24 October 1879, Page 2

THE AUCKLAND PRESS ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, Thursday. The Auckland Press, both in town and country, are unanimously in favor of the Auckland party joining the Hall Ministry. The Herald and Star have been foremost in the advocacy, and both journals have daily published articles urging this course. To-day’s Herald says ; been asking, it seems, what is going to be done with regard to the claims of Auckland, and have been answered that nothing can be done at present, but that it will be all right by-and-bye ; in fact, they are told to open their mouths, shut their eyes, and see what Mr. Macandrew will give them. If they wait for that they will not see much, and so it is to be hoped that the statement that Mr. Swanson, supported by the Auckland members, is about to join Mr. Hall, is correct. We fear it is too good to be true ; and yet so shrewd a man as the Attorney-General must see that, as the Government has adopted a Liberal policy, it must, if it desires to stand, accept the conditions of the Auckland phalanx, and see that district is properly represented in the Cabinet. It is satisfactory to find that, of the representatives of the Auckland district, there are some who are not disposed to blunder on blindfold and sacrifice the district to the bogus cry of ‘ party and we hope that the few are really representatives of others who, though silent, think as they do that Mr. Macandrew has had his chance. The expectation of his coming to terms with our members has been waited for quite long enough, and his reluctance is sufficient proof that nothing is te be gained from him, and that the party is in imminent jeopardy of being thrown over, and then laughed at. We shrewdly suspect that the attempt to hoodwink our members, —by sympathetic appeals to them to stick to the ‘ party,’ which has now no better claims on them than any other, since the Liberal policy has superseded all others, —is about played out. We warn the Auckland members that if they listen to the adder whispering in the ear of Eve, they, too, will lose their Paraslise, for there is a limit to the patience of electors, who, having long waited for an opportunity, now see justice within their grasp.” The feeling in Auckland is greatly in favor of the Hall Government, as against Macandrew. The news that Messrs. Colbeck, Hurst, Wood, and Swanson had gone over, has been received with much satisfaction, and caused grant excitement. The result has been looked fv • -!r. It is felt that Sir George Grey 1;; - ■ i treacherously and designedly sold by Mr. Macandrew.