Southern Reasons for Supporting the Present Government.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 78, 29 November 1884, Page 3

Southern Reasons for Supporting the Present Government.

Thk speeches of public men and utterances of Ministerial newspapers in the South should be instructive if not pleasant reading for those of the Auckland representatives who put Sir Julius Vogel and Mr Stout in oifice. Mr Holmes — one of the most violent champions of the Ministry — told his constituents that the Canterbury members held a meeting and sank all political differences in order to obtain justice for Canterbury— the said justice being the Christchurch West Coast railway job. He added that they would block-vote against any Government that refused to carry out that work, if necessary, by pledging the credit of the colony for a loan. The "Otago Daily Times" does not conceal similar views. In a leader article reviewing the results of the session, it says:— "lt can scarcely bo contested that, rightly or wrongly, there exists a general feeling here that the interests of Otago were neglected by the Atkinson Government, that favouritism was shown to the North Island. It is yet too early to say whether we aro likely to faro better at the hands of the present Administration, but their strongest hold upon public feeling here lies In the idea that the)/ are a Middle Island, ivhereas Major Atkinson's was a North Island Mmhtrij. Neither idea is altogether sustainable, but, their subsistence is undeniable. What is ceitain is that the late Government unfairly neglected tho Otago Central Kailuay, and from Mr Richardson wo have the promise that it will be proceeded with with all possible expedition." What has become of the second portfolio, which Ministers pledged their word should be given to Auckland ? If report speaks truly, the coming man is Mr Larnach. of Otago