OAMARU.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1485, 13 November 1874, Page 3

OAMARU.

(Per Press Telegram Agency.)

This day. Mr. Steward met his constituents last night at the Volunteer Hall. About two hundred and tifty were present. He spoke two hours, and reviewed the legislation of the Assembly, and the proposed political changes. He said the members of the Assembly with the exception of a few connected Tvith provincial institutions were convinced that the abolition of provincialism in the North Island was necessary to the progress of the colony. He believed if a satisfactory machinery of local government were substituted, the time would soon arrive that Canterbury and Otago would ask for its extension to the Middle Island Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland already

Weire for a change. A resolution of thanks, and an entire vote c* confidence was passed unanimously, as also the following resolution :— ■" That this meeting is of opinion that the time has arrived for the aboliiion of provincialism in the North Island, and the substitution thereof of a less costly system of Government, securing the expenditure of the local revenue (after deducting colonial charges), in the districts in which it is raised. And it is further of opinion that the abolition of the provinces and the substitution of local government with the local expenditure of local revenues, should be extended to the Middle Island as coon as practicable."