The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, and the Morning News THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1878.

Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1093, 24 July 1873, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, and the Morning News

THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1878.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrongs that need resistance, For the future in the distance,

And the good that wo can do

There is something irresistibly amiable in that gentle placidity of nature with which some people bear with ills and {wrongs! If every one were so dispositions^, provided always that "nobody was) dispqsed to take advantage of such meekness, this would be a happy, happy world. We have been }ed into this train of thought by the gentle forbearance of the electors of JEden. The man of their choice has inserted iherii without even leaving his P.P.0,, and bearing the honors of jEden on his shoulders Mr Creighton, now henceforth a citizen of the South, retains his seat in the halls of legislation to represent the views of his Northern constituents. The arrangement is an exceedingly satisfactory one, at least to the honorable member for Eden, and as it seems to be equally agreeable to the people of Eden, per- ; haps Nobody has a right to complain.! istillpeople will complain, and:we think not unreasonably, forthe elect of Eden js not only the representative of the people '- of that pleasant district, but as a member from the North he is supposed to represent those distinctive interests which are familiarly known i as Northern. It is wholly needless for us to specify those interests,'for however much we may decry "provincial" and local leanings, there are few who will not admit that, as questions now are, the interests of the Northern and

the Southern provinces are on certain j points entirely antagonistic. "We might instance- tike land revenue, which, as j most people arc aware, pertains in tho South to the several provincial treasuries, while in the Northern island there is no virtually pro vincialland fund. "We of the North have been accustomed to inveigh against the injustice of this arrangement, and we have beou accustomed to look always to the present member for Eden as the champion of the cause. That cause will now lack a champion seeing that Mr Creighton has gone South, for the beat friends of that gentleman will agree with us in believing that no voico will ever be lifted up so loudly in dofenco of the : existing state of things, and ill utter repudiation of the claims of the Northern constituencies to the unification of the land. revenue of tho Colony, as will the voice of tho present member for Eden; and tho Otago ; Guardian will become the standard around which will rally all those who feel most fiercely indignant against the presumptuous attempt to make the land fund part of the Colonial revenue. Viewed in this light as a question affecting the vital interests of the North in a matter in which unquestionable and simple justice is on our side, there cannot be a doubt that Mr Creighton should retire from a position, however honorably and ably filled in the past, yet ono to which he cannot act in any manner faithfully unless to the absolute and irretrievable prejudice of his popularity and influence among his Southern friends and supporters. We feel confident that if this were properly represented to Mr Creighton himself ho would frankly admit its justice, and would promptly give the electors of Eden the opportunity of chosing a successor. Of course so long as the constituents of that electorate acquiesce in this rather cavalier treatment it will be idle for others, looking to the general interests of the North, to protest; and unless there is some little scheming on hand that would make a vacancy in Eden inopportune —and goodness knows these things are past finding out —we think it would be seemly for those who pull tho strings in that electorate to set the people moving. Tho principle is an exceedingly bad one by which a man having once secured a seat in the House of Representatives retains it albeit that the grounds on which that seat was conferred have been wholly changed; and unless, as we have said, the people of Eden are under the spell of some great scheme being hatched, and for which they will be expected to chip the egg at the proper time, we think that jußfc now they should manifest a little political life, and some little regard to their electoral privileges.