TOWN EDITION PUBLISHED AT 4.30. The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, The Morning News, and The Echo. MONDAY. JULY 21, 1879.

Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2890, 21 July 1879, Page 2

TOWN EDITION PUBLISHED AT 4.30. The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, The Morning News, and The Echo.

MONDAY. JULY 21, 1879.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong tha needs resistance. For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do.

The telegrams from our parliamentary reporter are the reverse of re-assuring to Auckland. If it be true—and tho messages in our morning contemporary confirm our own reporter in declaring that ifc is—that a combination avowedly hostile to Auckland has ranged itself tinder Sir William Fox for tho deliberate purpose of manipulating the reins of Govcrnmc.it in the interests of the South, the crisis is indeed a momentous one. We can hardly conceive it as being crediblo that any Auckland member would bo a consenting party to so iniquitous a movement. But long experience of misfortune makes us distrustful. Auckland has beon sold, bamboozled, and defrauded so often without resistance if not with the actual consent of hor own members, that only a very hopeful man would discredit anything. The loss of the Seat of Government, the unequal distribution of tho Public Works loans, are facts too ominous to be mistaken. A few figures ftom the last Public Works statement will suffice to place this very plainly before the people. To the 30th of June last the number of miles of railway open in the Middle Tsland was 7-11; in tho North Island, 311 ; expenditure on Middle Island railways, £5,409,000; on North Island railways, £2,478,000. Area of Auckland, 17,000,000 acres; of Canterbury, 8,673,027 acres; of Otago, ] 0,038,400. The railways open in Auckland amount to 120 miles ; in Canterbury, 309 miles ; in Otago, 407 miles. The consequence of this is that the population of the respective provinces—which in 1871 stood respectively : Auckland, 04,332 ; Canterbury, 45,837; Otago, 73,840 —now numbers :

Otago, 114,409 ; Canterbury, 91,922 ; Auckland, S2,GGI. If this unjust fostering of one part of the colony at the expense of another has been tolerated in the past,how are we to make sure that it will not continue in tho future unless tlio people firmly resolve that they shall obtain justice eveu if the overturning of" existing institutions of Government should be necessary to that end. Tho letters of Mr Holdship tho othor day and Mr Graves Aicken and another correspondent stiike the key-notes, of which more will bo heard if our efforts to obtain justice fail. Auckland shall no longer consent to bo dragged at the chariot-wheel of the South. If out-voted and ignored in the parliament of the country, and persistently denied redress, the remedy still remains in the hands of the people. The Government stands by the ready acknowledgment and willisg obedience of tho people ; but a Government which exists only to perpetrate wrong has no claim to that allegiance, and if the people are once fully convinced that there is no remedy for their wrongs but Separation, no Parliamentary majority will be able to hold them in tin enforced bondage. For tho present, tho attitude of Auckland should bo one of watchfulness and readiuess at any momont to make its voice heard in tones that cannot be mistaken.