Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1890.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 457, 26 March 1890, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1890.

UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. ‘ This above all—to thiae owa self be true, And it must follow as the night the day Thou const not then be false to any man.’ Shakksfkaus.

The changes which have been made by the Boundary Commissioners in rearranging the Electoral Districts of the Colony are of a very sweeping character, and it was to be expected such would be thecaie seeing that the number of constituenciea hag been so largely reduced. Taken on the basis of population, the new arrangements may be regarded as satisfactory, but it is certain they will be productive of a good deal of jealousy and discontent. Place* which were each locally believed to be the pivot of Colonial politics, have been wiped out of existence, and districts and counties, the names of which were familiar ns household words, have sank into nothingness. Among these it ig natural there should be some dissatisfaction. In so far as Te Aroha is affected however, the people of this locality have i.o reason to be dissatisfied with the work of the Commissioners. .Instead of being, a6' heretofore, a mere appendage of those districts with which it was -formerly connected, Te Aroha will henceforth be known ns the name and centre of a very Large and influential-electorate. This in itself is a matter of some importance toour local population, as it will at once give to Te Aroha a standing which it might otherwise have tak*m long to acquire. That, however, i.s taking a rather selfish view of the matter, and we would prefer to look at it from a broader standpoint, and consider the effects which the

allerations will have throughout the entire diftrict. With regard to its chief industry, mining, Jt cannot bo gainsayed that it should benefit by tlic change, as the various mining centres will now be united in one strong constituency, whose representative will perforce be compelled to give greater attention to mining matters than they have received from the member who now represents the Te Aroha portion of the goldfields. The separation of Te Aroha and Waiorongomai fiom the district with which they have latterly been connected, should be gratifying to the residents of both places. There is, ami has been, no close community of interest between them and their fellow electors on the east side ©f the range. Moreover, since they were included in the Tauranga electorate, they have been virtually disfranchised, their existence as well rs their rights having been almost ignored by their repiesenlative. To be united again to a district with which they were long closely and advantageously associated, is like a return to the natural order of things, and we believe that Piako County will lose nothing by being wholly joined to a district with which its interests are so much bound up. In a task such as that which the Commissioners had to perform, it would have been an utter impassibility to satisfy the aspirations and the wishes of every locality. Doubtless there exists in many p’aces a feeling of dissatisfaction with regaid to the new arrangements. The wiping out of Coromandel nud Tauranga, for instance, will cause some discontentment, and we may assume that the severance of Cambridge from Waikato will not be altogether favourably regarded by the electors there. It is to be hoped, however, that any feeling of soreness, which nyiy now exist will gradually disappear, and that when the time arrives for the election of members for the new constituencies the electors will everywhere discard all local and petty jealousies anil unite in the endeavour to secure such representatives as will bring honor to their respective districts, and whose energies \yill be devoted to the furtherance of-the best interests of the Colony.