Southern Reasons for Supporting the Present Government.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4521, 25 November 1884, Page 2

Southern Reasons for Supporting the Present Government.

The speeches of public men and utterances of Ministerial newspapers In the South should bo Instructive If ttot pleasant re&dinsj fot thoso of the Auckland representatives who pUt Sir ihilitts YtigSi afati Mi' Stout in office. Mr Holmes—one of the moat violent championß of the Ministry— told his constituents that the Canterbury members held a meeting and sank all political differences in order to obtain justice for Canterbury—the w.id justice being the Chrirtchurch West Coast railway job. He added that they would block-vote against any Government that refused to carryout thatwork,if necessary) by pledging the credit of the colony for a loan. The "Otago Daily Times" does not Conceal similar Views. In a leader article reviewing the result* of the seesionj \t B{tyß:-,"Jt Sap scarcely be K»htbstfed that; rightly or wrongly, there exists a general feeling hero that the interests of Otago were neglected by the Atkinson Government, that favouritism waa shown to the North Island. It is yot too early to say whether we are likely to faro hotter at the hands, of the present Administration, but their strongest hold vjmn public feeling here lies in thz idea, that they are a Middlt Island, ickcfids Major Atkinson's Was a North Island Ministry. Neither Idea is altogether sustainable, but their subsistence is undeniable. What is certain is that the lato Government unfairly neglected the Otttgo Central Hailway, and from Mr Richardson we have tho promise that it Will be proceeded with with all possible expedition." What has become of tho second portfolio, which Ministers pledged thotr Word should be given to Auckland t. If report speaks truly, the coming man is Mr Larnach, of Otago