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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2114, 13 October 1875, Page 2

It may be remembered that Sir John Duke Coleridge, having exhausted all his stock of abuse in vilifying Arthur Orton, at that time the claimant to the Tichborne estates, Wound up- with a peroration as follows:-— "These are strong terms gentlemen, but if I could I would make them stronger, &c." So now we would, were it possible, summon to pur aid every adjective in tbe English language which savours of disapprobation, to mark how strongly we condemn the persistent conduct of the Government to refuse to this district adequate representation in" parliament. Our claim to increased representation-^----our present inadequate representation must be patent to understandings the most obtuse. Not only the local press but other papers not concerned in the matter: are unanimous in agreeing with the justice of our demands. Members of the ffou«e, as discordant on other matters as Sir George Grey and Mr Stafford, unite, in their endeavors to set our wrongs right, but all to no purpose, for the proposal to give us two additional members has been negatived by a majority of 37 to 21. Government and their West Coast adherents—fearful, perhaps, of the future, refuse even the concession of allowing us three-fourths of our just claim, and steadily and persistently decline to do us justice. With facts so open as are the facts connected with our case ; with claims urged as we believe ours to have been urged by Sir George Grey—not in a factious spirit but with au evident desire to see justice done to others, however much their political bias may differ from his ; and by their own late adherent and brilliantspeaker, Mr Stafford, Government have not a shadow of excuse for refusing demands so moderate as those made on our behalf by Mr O'Neill; their refusal can be construed in no other way than a set and fixed resolve to perpetuate injustice for their own private ends and aims. The utmost that could be said for them, the most flattering excuse that could be offered for their conduct; would be to say that they were desirous of atoning for their weak and vacillating policy regarding the Abolition Bill, by a course of sheer obstinacy and pig-headed-ness now.