The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News. SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1875.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1659, 12 June 1875, Page 2

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

SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1875.

Per the oause that lacks assistance, For the wronfr that needs resistance, 4f»r thefmture in the distance, JjU tb.9 ««od that we can do.

It will hardly be questioned that the late action of the General Government in respect of provincial moneys should revive the question of the control of the railway. Ifc is admitted that this is being worked at a heavy ' loss ; it is known now that interest on the cost of construction is also' being charged against it, and we have just seen that all these amounts are charged against the province. If there is anyone among us to question the right of the province in these 'circumstances to have the management of ita railway in its own hands, this will /only show the servile following which the hand that can shower favours and patronage and dollars can ensure. And yet, though it will be scarcely credited, it is true that the General Government still refuses to;hand over the control of the railway to the province. In this, as in so many other things, our province is .treated entirely exceptionally, aqd while the grossest mismanagement and incapacity are experimenting on r^"r |, railway, to the great inconvenience arid injury of the public, the heavy losses accruing in consequence, are saddled nolens volens on the1 province. The public are aware that an offer was made by the Messrß Brogden to pay seyeral thousands a year for the rent of a small section of the line, and to . open it immediately, and that the General Government declined then either to open it themselves or to let the Messrs Brogden work it, bringing a profit to the provinceIt is now now known that a similar offer has been made for the working of the whole of the lines in the province so far as completed at the present time, and on terms that instead of loss, would bring in a large profit to the province. And yet in these circumstanoea. the General Government will persist in going on bungling the business and heaping the costs of its own criminal extravagance on

the unfortunate shoulders of the\jpfqvin©Bi" How long is this state of things dured ? How long are our pecpla tio^uraait to oppression and insult and iftpbery? How long will public feeling! be trifled with in the conviction .that we are helpless to resist? The wrong and insult at present heaped on the "people of this province is becoming maddening, and the retribution must come. One after another, every engagement and understanding on which the publicswere duped into acquiesence in the Public Works and Immigration policy has been scattered to the winds, and the brainless and helpless colleagues of Mr Vogel, who were tolerated when under his shelter, and are now at their witfs' ends in his absence, are exhibiting all. the paltry and petty tyranny thab their term of office will allow. The humiliation to which this province is at present subjected does not find a parallel in the history of these colonies. How long will it be borne ?•