Our Auckland Letter.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3954, 31 August 1881, Page 2

Our Auckland Letter.

(FROM OTTii OWN COBEESPONDENT.)

Auckland, Tuesday.

There is not much news stirring hero at present. Many persons are speculating that the Kepresentatiou Bill will not pass, that the Government will resign, and that the Premier will advise an early dissolution. No doubt some of these things are in the womb of the future, but that news is difficult of being got just now is beyond doubt.

POLITICAL WHISPEBING-S iND GOSSIP. The Rev David Bruce will again come forward as a candidate for Marsden. Dr Beale, of Hamilton; is talked of "i|r Waikato. Other electorates will depend on the chapter of accidents, notably in convection with the schedules for the new bouudaries, and, judgiug from Mr Sbee- \ han's speech in iNo. 20 of Hansard, it will be seen from his remarks that he gives credit to Mr Whitaker, senr., for the boundaries for the Auckland districts :— " The secoad objection I have to this bill is this : I know quite well that there is itk the Ministry one whom I might term a master mind. He differs from his colleagues in this respect, that he always travels on a particular road, but uever leaves any track. You know which way he is going, but you cannot follow him, until the thing is done, until his purpose is achieved. You can see his hand in the sketch of these districts in the North Island, particularly in Auckland." Anyone who knows the political character of the Attorney General will endorse these statements, for to my mind they are true to the letter. The latest interest in the interests of this Provincial District which tht* Hon Mr Whitaker has shown is in the iutroductioii of a measure for dealing with the Hot Lakes at Ohinemutu, but it is a puzzle to me—and perhaps it is not — why the Attorney General did not bring dowu other and more useful bills for the general welfare of New Zealand, without troubling himself about matters which can well be postponed. ;

Contributors to the Auckland papers are going straight for Mr Speight over his late action. The Representation Sill, I think, is grossly unfair in many respects to Auckland. My own belief ii? that should this fond child of the AltorneyGeneral become law, vre may expect shortly to find out that the land fund will be restored to the south, the* natiTes will be managed through southern votes, and we shall be entirely at the Parliamentary mercy of the Canterbury knickerbocker gentlemen both in the Lords and Commons. Then it will be found that it was political suicide in our members not stonewalling until all is blue before it was permitted to be entered on the statutes of the Colony. My -private advices from Wellington notify that a Mr Loveday (an old Thames resident, I believe) clerk in" the Chief Office of the Inspector of Asylums has issued circulars to all medical superintendents of insane establishments with a view of funds being raised to perpetuate the memory of the late Dr Skae by the erection of a monument. Had the late Inspector's family been in want it would have been a very deserving object to supplement the means available for them, but to ask poorly paid officials to subscribe for a monument, i» coming it a little too strong. No doubt, however, our worthy Mayor and Mr Thomas Macffarlane will put the matter in train.