The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1874.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1424, 4 September 1874, Page 2

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

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1874.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance* For the future in the distance. Ami the seed that we can do.

Is our yesterday's issue we made reference to a few matters which might piofi^aMy be considered at the approaching meetings of constituencies. These subjects have been so full}' dealt with during the past three months that it is unnecessary to devote any large amount of space to their discussion in the present issue. It is sufficient to invite some explanation of the following facts :—Out of the loan for public works, Auckland, with a population of 69,000, had £934,500 appropriated, or about £13 10s per head. (For convenience we give the figures in round numbers.) For Otago, with a population of 88,000, there was appropriated £2,065,000, or £23 19s per head ; Canterbury, with a population of 61,000, had £1,160,000,. or £19 par head ; Wellington, with a population of 31,000, had (with the appropriations of last session) £846,000, or £27 per head. The provincial appropriation of Otago for the present year was £717,414 against £92,000 for Auckland (even reckoned upon what Mr Reader Wood calls the " bogus estimates " of the last session of the Provincial Council.) The large provincial revenue of Otago enables that province to construct railways while Auckland can barely pay departmental expenses and keep existing roads in repair. On what principle of justice, then with an appropriation of over two millions stowing out of the colonial loans, has the General Assembly determined to purchase back tha Otago railways constructed out of provincial funds in order to place that province in a position to undertake further gigantic works. These are facts which the people of Auckland must keep clearly in view. We need not go further icito the question of the inequalities in provincial revenues, but we venture to assert tint if Auckland, had enjoyed the same amount of expenditure in opening up the country as Canterbury and Otag fhava dove,. she would now be very far a-head of either of those provinces. With respect to the distribution of the immigratioa expenditure we shall simply enumerate the arrivals of immigrants in the respective provinces last j year :—Otago, 11,155; Canterbury, 10,352; Wellington, 4,357; Hawkes Bay, 2,455 ; Auckland, 2,356. We mu§t look to our representatives for the remedy of these evils which might very easily be traced to the way Auckland members stand at sixes and sevens on every public question of importanca, while the representatives of other provinces are united and by caucuses and threats extort obese large concessions from the General Government.