MR DILWOTH'S OPINION ON CITY EST ELECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1830, 29 December 1875, Page 3

MR DILWOTH'S OPINION ON CITY EST ELECTION.

(To the Ector of the Evening Star). SIR,-~Seeing hat my name has been im. P°j* into '? st!U£?fc,le between Mr Rees ar.d Mr Clarkalthou»h I much regret being thus dragged prominently forward, yet, seeing it is soj ask your permission to direct hurriedly the Mention of the people to a few points which iem to me to have been overlooked by all jiblic speakers, and yet are of great importaije. Mr Clark is strongly opposed to Sapaltion. I as strongly believe it is the only ilvation for Auckland. We have been too ;ng and too unequally yoked. It is a notorioij fact that between "our disunion and thi overwhelming majority of representative^ om the South lsiand, oar affairs have be.« managed, not by us, but/or us. That maagement which has alrerdy produced one rfcive war, is like the management of all absentees, both expensive and bad. So bad indeed j. to produce during a trial of nearly twent years both public discontent and public bairuptcy. The enforced continuance by Soihern domination of this state of things will k certainly produce another native war at » distant date, as the South Island dominaipn and ignorance of native affairs produeedthe last war. As a settler of thirty-five y.rs' residencein New Zealand, I would say to he players in this game of Government : 'Do not Jet the hollow sentiment of an ' Hited New Zealand,' or the gain of a few hurjreds of thousands of pounds produce such a isulfc, but in the name of all thai is noble, gaerous, and good, strive for ■Separation." Ala financial basis, let the South Island tafein round figures, without going Z- into Ittails, which are of minor importac*, the whole debt, less provincial debt and the public works and immigration expenditure in the North Island, leaving tke natives and all future dealings with tfen and the results of such dealings to us, t__d understand them. Then would our prestii greedy striving be converted into a itcere and honest rivalry worthy of free men and British colonists, and a general' prosperity would result such as would Surprise the whole Empire. This good work >eing accomplished, I would say to those whdldok for a great future, go for an united iiitralasia, with:a Federal Government in trie ISJorth Island of New Zealand, the natiral centre of these Southern Seas, the direct Ine from America and the Old World to ffclese new lands, whence through Aucklartt and the Manukau a mail service could becsrried which would bring all these new c.uitries within 40 days of London. But inrmdiately with Separation see that the teidency of federal legislation be as much as posiiile to relieve the Customs Revenue of its prismt vast share of the cost of Government, throwing that cost upon property and imbne, andj thereby create a magnificent futuie if or this Island and this colony through freetrade and free ports.—l am, sir, yours tral/, J. DILWORTH.

CITY EAST ELECTION.

To the Ediior of the Stab. gj Xj _In the inteiests of fair play, allow me to correct a statment made by Mr. Rees iv his letter to last light's Star to the following effect :—" Mr. j Peacock, who when proposing Mr. CWk at the nomination asked, if I mistakl not, what Sir George Grey had done for ul." What I really did say was as follows.—" Gentlemen, I am not here to depreciafe in the slightest degree the eminent serviced rendered by Sir George to the colony. I droit that he is well entitled to the positinof leader, and deserving of all honor" ; vords of a very different meaning from those;imputed to me by Mr Rees and which ari calculated to create a prejudice against MrClark, notwithstanding that that gentleman has even in his first address emphatically expressed the desirability of all the Ainkland members acting under Sir George as ffieir leader.-I am, &c, — Thomas Peacock. ;