The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1927, 8 March 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1875.

The meeting held in Auckland on Friday last to adopt measures to recognise the eminent services rendered to the Province and the Colony by the late Superintendent assumed a thoroughly practical form, a proposal being adopted to raise subscriptions for the purchase of an annuity for Mrs Williamson. This proposal will meet with general approbation throught the Province, as the best way of evincing respect for the dead is by showing regard for the living. Had the late Superintendent been like many of his contemporaries, he would net have^ sacrificed his interests in a firm adherence to principles. But he was a man of a peculiar stamp; his unflinching advocacy of what he conceived to be the right was the means of involving the ruin of a handsome fortune, obtained by honest industry and perseverance in his business; and it now becomes the duty of the Province with which he was so long identified to show that his abilities and his principles were appreciated, and to see that the declining years of his bereaved widow shall be smoothed by a liberal and ample provision. An influential committee has been appointed in Auckland, and doubtless sub-committees will be formed in the different centres of population throughout the Province to forward the movement so promptly instituted. We feel sure that all classes in this community, and men of all shades of political opinion will join willingly in helping the movement to the extent of theirmeans. To secure comfortand independance to the widow will be a much more commendable work than expending money in a marble monument or tablet recording the virtues of the deceased. It has been said, "the best way to keepgejod acts in memory was to refresh them with.! new ; "and the " good act" now contemp^ted will be an appropriate way of keeping green in our memories the many good qualities of the late Superintendent.

Mk Dabgaville has thrown up the sponge —retired from the contest against Sir George Grey for the Superintendency. The published address of Sir George (Jrey—which appears to have worked remarkable changes both here and in Auckland—has decided Mr Dargaville in retiring from the"contest. The opinions of the two candidates are so similar that Mr Dargayille retires. We are not much surprised. Sir George Grey's address is something so different from what might have been expected from the tenor of his letters to the Herald on abolition that no one would recognise it as emanating from the same source. It appears very probable that for the second time a Superin-

tendent will be chosen for Auckland without goiug to a poll.