The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Issue 613, 25 April 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Ot whatever state or pei suasion, religious crYolitrcal * # '* #" * Here shallthe Tres-i the Profit's right maintain, Uuiiwed by influence jimi unbribed by gain.

TUESbA'Y, APRIL 25. 1876.

The Opposition party, or at leaifc the section of which Sir £2 Gorge Grey is "the acknowledged leader, has received a most damaging blow from the exposure made by oue cf its adherents latejy gone over to tho enemy's camp. "As Jate editor of the " Post," the Wellington' Opposition journal, and Irimself an active politician, Mr Gillou during •the Lite session was hand and glove with Sir George Grey and that section ot the Opposition party immediately attached u> him. Since then Mr Gillon has seen the error of his political ways, renounced the *( Post" and all its vorks, and started a third Wellington, journal, the •' Argus." The virtue of this Wellington Danae was not, sa,y Mr Gillon's late friends, proof against the golden shower of Government advertisements with which ifc was assailed. At any rate, after some little coquetting, the " Argus " threw itself with oharming abandon -into the arms of the Ministry, which, Delilah-Hke, has -wormed its party secrets from this -literary Sampaon. Amongst the last, and not the least iin. pottant, is that which, under tho heading of '•'Auckfonda Separate Colony," we have re-printed in our issue of to-day. Had the charge therein contained appeared in the columns of any other of the - Ministerial organs, we should -have looked upon it as a mere matter of supposition ■ and surmise — a very natural deduction to be drown from the speeches of Sir George Grey in and out of Parliament, and from his close -connection with the Home Eule party in the colony — but nothing more. Coming, however, from one who was a member of the Opposition conclave, and, indeed, tho originator of many of its tactics, who has broken from them with bitterness, and who has since heen most virulently assailed with the grossest; personal abuse by the Opposition Aucklarfd journals, the matter wears n different complexion. Mr Gillon was in a position to know the secrets of the party to which he is now opposed, and, thanks to the want of tact and moderation of the newspaper organs of that party, has been irritated to such a' pitch of hostility that he has thrown all scruples overboawl, end denounced them for what he knows them to be. There is a certain proverb respecting the result of tho falling out of persons of a certain chaiacter, and the colonists in this case are the honest men whe reap tho advantage. To be forewarned is to be forearmed, and it is well that the people of Auckland — we do not speak of the city, but of the province — should know what the tactics of the chiefs of the extreme Oppositionists amongst them are leading <cp to. We do not hesitate to bay that with the great

[Majority of oven the inhabitants of the :ity this proposal of forcibly separating Auckland from the rest of the col&ny, and if calling in American intervention to settle our differences wifch the South, will be looked upon with disfavour. Whatever ;nay be the bitterness which the rabid utterances of .such men as Luslc, Grey, LJtiiines, Hoes, :uul "William Ivirby may have roused in the miuds of the less thinking- of the electors, there is one chord in the Auckland heart which cannot be played upon by political charlatans, ami that is loyalty to the Queen. However much her citizens may be lej away by rounded periods and carefully compiled misleading statements of finance, by claptrap appeals to local pi ej unices, and the reiteration of the but too unduiiuble errors of a government, which, after all, ia but composed of mortals, Auckland -will never be found untrue to its instinct of loyalty, and the revelation how made by Mr tjillon will detach all bufc the moro extreme adherents of tho " aoparato Colony" parly from Sir (Seorge. No doubt their newspaper organs will be -found loud in protestation, that no such proposal as that stated by the ♦* Argus" ever existed. So too does the felon in -the dock, when his accomplice appears in tho "witness box as Queen's evidence against him, stoutly deny the charge and seek through his counsel to depreciate the value of the evidence by aspbifiious on the character and tho motives of him who gives it. And this we may eicpoct to hear from tho " advocates" of the party now arraigned before the Colony in the charge wo reprint to-day from the " Wellington Argus. But we are awara of nothing in Mr Gillon's antecedents that wonld leave room to suppose for one moment that he would etrcuinstautially make such <ft charge without foundation. His position of credibility as editor of a leading New Zealand journal is at least equal to that of Sir George Grey, or of any otker party leader, and the Colonists will not look upon a statement thus circumstantially, and deliber- ( ately, end authoritatively made, as one of those mere political canards which in times of political excitement so often find their way into the columns of thep.'ess. If Sir George in the excitement of party j politics has bean at any time weak enough and wicked enough to indulge in any such treasonable dream as tJ»e erection of the Province of Auckland into a .separate colony, whether. sanctioned by tho Legislature or not, and an appeal to American interference, let him thank Mr Gillon and the "Argus" fur the timely exposure of a scheme, which, in its attempted enactment, might have brought much ridicule, andiperhaps miseiy on the misguided men who had joined him in euch folly anil madness. We till know what " Auckland a separate Colony' means. The country districts have had bitter experience of Auckland a sepaiate Province, and they have no desire 4o soe perpetrated on a large Soalc by Auckland, the capital of an independent colony, the robbery and injustice which they 'have MTileml at the hands of Auckland, the capital of a Province, checked even then 'in some decree by the Colonial Government, In such mafctm there is but out* ftsflinir in tln'is Jistrict. The people of Waikato wi'l havenone of it. One Colony, one pi'rsc, one executive, is our cry and watchword ; and Home Rule fillibustei-jvs, bo they few or mai^, will n'ud if the choice of Government is brought to a physical issue iv tho Northern portion of New - Zealand, that the party of law and order has other tb«n the £,una of Her Majesty's frig.ites wherewith to put down incipient rebellion. As one man Waikato, with its large popiH lation of soldiers, who have but recently turned their Swords into ploughshires, and of its hundreds of loyal settlers would rise in tbo cause of law, of tho Colony and of the Queen