The Isolation of Auckland.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 4131, 28 September 1883, Page 2

The Isolation of Auckland.

It is reported that some steps are being taken by the Auckland Ministerial supporters to protest against the wrong done to Auckland by its exclusion from the Cabinet. If this bo true, we hope that whatever is done will be of so decisive a character as will leave the Ministry no ground for supposing that the people or their representatives arc otherwise than in earnest about the matter. Every day's consideration will increase the public sense of the gravity of the situation, and tho fatal consequences of inaction upon Auckland's most vital interests. Wo cannot afford to trust our prosperity to men who are ignorant of local circumstances, and alien in sympathy. It has been hard enough to hold our own with Auckland's best men in the Ministry ; which one among the members now composing tho Cabinet could bo approached on an Auckland question with the slightest chance of commanding fair consideration ? The mercantile body, which will earliest feel the malign consequences uf a purely Southern control of public affairs, should long ago have expressed its amaze* meut at the course adopted by tho Cabinet in filling Mr Whitaker's seat with an Otago representative. It is not too late yet to back with the weight of their influence the remonstrancesthatare being directed against the Ministerial policy. The strong feeling in the constituencies is only held in cheek by a desire to wait a day or two for affairs to mature. Wo believe tho conviction is universal that tho compromise suggested from Wellington of a new Legislative Councillor with a seat, in the Executive would be a worse insult than the complete exclusion of the North, even if any man could bo found willing to accept of nomination to n Chamber which in already doomed by the voice of the country and the avowed policy of the Ministry. The j>eoplo of Auckland have only to exhibit a united front in order to smash up this dangerous combination, and if the lirstattcmpt at a hostile Southern alliance is thus firmly resisted, the victory, which is assured, will teach this and otlior Ministries that Auckland is as capable of defending hor rights as sho is bold,, vigilant, and tenacious in asserting them.