The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News," and "The Echo." FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1875.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1822, 17 December 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News," and "The Echo."

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1875.

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It is lauo-fc able to see *»'• V8 1 lsh over *h which thev> vvernen* P A b»l«W» .In thw .< common p.««» <** fca™ » that this £ parts at least, » ■ the .Govenune« an essential portion 01 , aing th , fc such at scheme. It signifies n 0 c heads that con idea never entered into Ution scheune . B ceived and framed the Ado oposal and eyerj atters not that every p* , repudiates t.he m eminent speech utterly ement _ Ifc Gov -non purse" arrang t occasions, and "com. a tallthat"onfreqiien exceptional ennothing . er ta e s peoial and * (d Q ladstone notably o\ t the 1 Hmaru ai 9 Canterbury dowment o. o ne-2oi irth. of t f oug ht with district with N \q Government oba ted, and land revenue, ti ait st thereof i e " idea of tooth and nail a^ ' ' uotworthy ever-to-be-abhorred • avenue.l^ Abolition communityin the land t. v * . woven of an instant's though Motion and Local Government Bh. , „. iport "rs through their every tissue orC iuK dpw.« of the land fund, the Governs . intended of Abolition will persist in > Southern' people's throats that the Aboliti 'ntention means our getting our sharo in th land fund. Never was the real case of the Government in this respec was apparent than in relation to the %ara of the district referred to. A clause j n introduced specially guarding the Tim , and Gladstone district from this danger,

member for that district, Mr. Stafford, who was acting wet-nurse to the Government. For that the Government fought with a dogged persistence that showed that nothing was more remote from their intentions than tho idea of the land fund being made common property, and yet the Centralist pack will persist in baying out that Abolition means land revenue in a common purse. And while those of the highly transcendental and utterly unselfish and disinterI ested school, to which Mr. Firth and other* belong, exclaim against Separation and Sepaationists aa raising "red-herring cries"— i hatever they are—in the cause of selfishw. *, for the purpose of keeping the land nes iues of the colony for the exclusive use reva. nterbury and Otago, it may be interof C& to know the part played on this esting by such Federalists and Separationquestion i r George Grey. And from his ists a3 fc. the occasion in the House—which speech on . _ Mr y£ r th and such as he can ■we quote- * 3 £ rm( j g eneroua principles of the learn the 3 d t^e Government, which, in the Abolition . \oaißness of his own unspotted serene con SQ belan flg and defends. Thus patriotism 1 ] eader :—

sp < 0 the great national policy Sir, this 1 j 0 ma ] le us one great and which was Goi ing back to the days united pe°P\e; , we -were told that the of Simon de M< - oalan a, w hen they met to men oi ew f . rif ;W;s an d privileges, were exercise their ne\ t , Yfe are from Canterbury, no longer to say, we are from Timaru. No, ° c a re from Otagt V :ealan( Jers, with common we are all NeW f nn ds, common views, evennea, commo. a „ guch was the 1 mmon objects m bqw find that c 0 tnre drawn for c lineate a such a magmP*c oreat artistj" OCCTl pied in preparme » the, *! pic ture vaj OC dh f afew friends-8,000 ficenv -rforbimß^ n that a nything more unretreav - n a ll. i E ay _ hi va neV er come people, ~ wore j "J^?^ - wor ld. Auckbecomin^ • Legisl *'"ure i -~„ i an a fund lost before .i, SO^^&Sb oT 185G -with land, with, Ued the P called the t« great res »;jSd toft. »c 8.000 people, Consolidated Son acres of land we are poverty..Bak» 1 on from the land * ith thexr foor , to nobody else. bow told that *« *op , Ifc . d belongs to those J ng industry. }**}" Why <50e9^ be a \ them ? B ut if it does from their toil, «ott doeg the revenue sense does it belong y h manj so belong to' «£s' dl te. to alike, not belong raisedfrom Custom ? that rich and poor, con & t n v to them and *« JJo re aU the North of th« justice? Is tb^ from Uin myself a New mT' a\ C fi Soud of ca. ,A3 these ? I art colony, to be pro* terfflV {rom a be lie, Zealander npon sue pre vail-tha proud of ef _riaoipl«> W. iltimately-tha that different pn^ doQe v of B o OC equal justice VI" comml ,p U blicfundo there -wUI not be thl lk> to ,eople in ono pa" ° h Bay v been added SB4 000 % a o oSbireCenf\ ionof80,00( £27,000 or £2°' U,V ÜbeU be a pop^ al .very perm] while there shaU w ifc h , c meana 0 people in another^gj^^ly tV , jb]iabme nt : Lept away, an t IS public. esta at is mean carrying on their V b - g w h. . wbat j hanLd back *o them. / x t^ 0 L your national pou y f| Tb Treaßure « evinces BilU £•' nothing a^& in s^a i, W^ 9 that they took tbin g;. . n th , oldV iect was to lea™ from us heir o^K Ido they take, . oWQ k V 7uo W affial ra, h fund. That is 3^"^ b y \Z Legisla>| tmt h to be one P«op omm y rf "" the iment of this colony must be a nmen . it must be the property of | than that, ought an I - away the pro•^nt for the

people, which were not purchased with their money, and which belonged to them no more than they do to any other man in either of the two islands of ]New Zealand. So long as the provinces were left distinct these questions were not raised in the form which they must now assume ; but if this policy is persisted in, if there is to be one Government for the whole of New Zealand, then I say it is right and just that there should be one revenue composed of receipts from all public sources, which one revenue should be alike the property of all. And to the utmost of my ability I will contend at all times for that privilege. I will contend for equal rights for the whole colony of New Zealand, and will do my best in every way I can to defeat such an - attempt as has been made in this 24th clause—an attempt which is not characterized by openness, because there is no statement which would lead any person not acquainted with all the circumstances to imagine that great principles were embodied in it. It is an attempt which is not righteous, inasmuch as the honorable member for Timaru and his friends, united with the Government, constitute a party so powerful in this House that it is almost in vain for any one at the present moment to contend against them. Every circumstance connected with the attempt to get this clause through clothes it with unfairness, and I do hope I shall find on every side of the House some one or more members who will think with me that equal justice should be clone in this case ; and if this system of one General Government for the whole colony of Few Zealand is to be established, tbat such persons will help me in affirming the principle that an attempt to secure for the people of Timaru such enormous advantages is one that should be resisted, and should be overcome."