AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2065, 17 August 1875, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

- This day. Abolition Que^ioi*. Three meetings re Abolition were held last night. The Franklin electors! (May and Buckland's constituency/} held a large meeting at Otahuhu. Thflf first resolution proposed favored thi Government measures. Mr Alfred Butler proposed, and Mr Foley seconded, the same adverse resolution as was carried at the Auckland meeting. After various speakers had addressed the meeting, an amendment against the Government measure was put and carried amjd Joud cheers and applause. There were only about a do?en hands held up against it. It was then respjved, unanimously, on the motion of Mr John Gordon, seconded by Mr Luke—" That this meeting hereby request the two

Members representing Franklin to use every legitimate means to prevent the Abolition of Provinces Act passing further than the second reading." At P^nsonby, a very large meeting was held. All the speakers wero against tho Government measures. The ■ Chairman several times called for speakers on the other side, but met with no response One speaker was enthusiastically cheered when he said that the people'" now appealed to the Government in a constitutional way, but revolutions had taken. place in British communities. Kings had found they had gone a step-too far,and the people of this colony might yet be compelled to : take an extreme course against the Government, Revolutions advers& to the Government were carried' unanimously. At Onehvinga a large meeting passed a resolution calling upon the Auckland members to resist the Bill clause by clause, line by line, and word by word. ; Each of the meetings concluded with three cheers for Sir George Grey. A meeting of Bodney electors at Waiwera also passed resolutions adverse>to the Government measures, and concluded with three cheers for Sir George-Grey ahd'three for Mr Sheehan, their member.

All the meetings have been characterised by a manifestation of strong feel-ings,-1 and an unanimity almost unprecedented in Auckland.

Campbell, a milkman, was fined £5 for adulterating his milk- to the extent;.of forty per cent.

The Hamilton meeting passed resolutions in favour of the Government Abolition measures.