The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, The Morning News, and The Echo. SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1879.

Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2920, 23 August 1879, Page 2

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

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1879.

«. For the erase that lacks assistance, For the wrong tha needs resistance, For the future in the distance, Aid the good that wo can do.

If any doubt existed before of the strong desire of the people to send a compact body of Auckland members pledged to carry out a Liberal programme under the leadership of Sir George Grey, it must have been set at rest by the meeting last night. It has rarely happened that the current of public opinion has run so strongly in one direction. The greatest difficulty experienced is to get good men whose views on all important questions are in accord with the majority of the electors. Complete unanimity is, of course, impossible, and the meeting took the only way of obtaining united action in appointing a strong committee to carry out their wishes in an organised and systematic manner. The decision, however, throws great responsibility upon a small body of men, and they will maKo a mistake most damaging to the object they have in view if they fail to secure candidates who can command the confidence, respect, and sympathy of the people. There is no doubt that where candidates selected arc opposed to the strongly expressed will of the electors on vital questions, thoy will have to sink their own opinions and represent the constituency. Un the education question there can be no surrender. The electors, from, the feeling evinced, however, appear determined not to let secondary considerations lead them away from the main issues to be decided—is it the will of Auckland people that Sir George Grey shall be turned out of office or not? and shall wo send down a united party or one divided against itself 1 There is no doubt whatever the matter has settled itself simply into that. All side issues are more red herrings drawn across the scent, and the vote of the people will be accepted throughout tho Colouy as determining only one thing. Tho professed acceptance of the measures cuuticiated in the Governor's speech by ex-membors, while deliberately adopting a course securing the defeat of those measures, has reduced the matter into very narrow-lines, and. the Canterbury and Otago members of the Opposition insist upon this in their speeches — their sole desire is to get rid of Sir George Grey. 11 is useless, therefore, to place the matter to be determined otherwise than plainly before the people; it is their office to decide it, and to (to so after thoughtful consideration —Is it their will that Sir George Grey shall be thrown overboard or not?