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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2060, 11 August 1875, Page 2

The Thames is not singular in its natural and just wish to. Lave its interests properly represented in the Assembly ; that is, properly both with regard to the number of those whom it may be able to choose as its representatives as well as its hope thatthosewhomit does select should display a due regard for if s welfare. Only a short time ago a petition was signed for presentation to the Assembly in which the petitioners .acknowledge themselves in duty bound to ever pray (for what they said not) provided they might be allowed to send a larger number of members to forward their views. Christchurch has taken the hint and followed suit, and; we hear petitions there are being extensively signed.for an additional member toTiach. Of itsdivisions of east and west Christchurch, making four in all to represent a constituency numbering 2,475 electors i according to' the last census, or 2,618 according^ to to-day's Advertiser. Whichever of these numbers we take matters but little* for if it be just that Christchurch with its 2,000 and odd electors should have four memijers, much more than (of Euclid) , should the Thames which, according to the same authority—the last census—numbers 3,466 electors, have at least four members as its fair and. proper share. There can be no doubt that if number of electors be taken as a basis on which to allot representative power to. each constituency, some radical change willhave tolae made. Dunedin city, for instance, which numbers 3,422 electors, second only to the Thames in point of numbers, will hardly, if Christchurch and the Thames be successful, remain content with two members ; while Nelson with only 759 on its electoral roll is represented by an equal number for its city, and has an additional member allowed for its suburbs. Waiiarapa has two members for its .652 electors, and it has also been thought necessary to

allot one member to Wallace with but 103 electors on the roll, making it thereby apparently entitled to equal consideration with the Thames, with somewhere about that number multiplied by 30 ! In truth, if .extremes • meet; this according equal privileges to the Alpha and Omega of the list of constituonces may be quoted'as a most undesirable and unjust proof of its correctness.