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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4484, 19 May 1883, Page 1 (Supplement)

It is understood that the Government have received advices from the Pacific Mail Company announcing that tbe company have accepted the proposals of the New South Wales . G-overnment with regard to the San Francisoo mail service

The Lyttelton Times of 24fch ult. says : "As wealth and population mean power, every year must see Auckland becoming a greater power in the Councils of New Zealand. Either Auckland will get what it wants from the General Assembly, or its will nofc endure to be governed from a distant spot, and by men who are practically unacquainted / with its local requirements. Auckland's wants will be numerous, and will be strenuously fought for. It will become a question whether the colony, will be able to afford to satisfy them, or whether separation of the two Islands, or a return to a modified system of Provincialism, would not be a cheap way of buying the Northern province off. If separation were decided upon, Auckland would become the capital of the North Island, under a Provincial system, and here people would have the privilege of managing their own affairs. The weight of Auckland in New Zealand polities will in a few years be felt in the scale to some purpose."