PRETENDED OBJECTION.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3406, 16 June 1868, Page 3

PRETENDED OBJECTION.

To the Editor of tht Daxlt Southern Cross. Sir, — Yesterday 1 noticed in the new Auckland Press a reproduction of the substance of an article that lately appeared in a Whanganui-Wellinatou journal, the suspected purport of which was, in effect, "Oh, pray don't remove the seat of Government from our province I" We know there are m»ny advocates of plans of retrenchment, the end of most of which would be onr inevitable dia-rating. We have carefully perused leading *rt : cles aud able contributions in the leadiug newspapers of the colony, but knowing perfectly that the removal would reduce th« »alue of our property some 40 or 50 per cent., ' we can'b see it.' Surely their schemes are conflicting and their ideas cwfuße.i ! " Very ane writing ! Whanganui agriculturists have no doubt doubled their returns lately. The only astonishing part of the business is that a respected Aucklander should have con. amore discovered to us such a strain, and expressed bis general concurrence in it ; for he must in his time have seen abundant evidence of the truth of the old saying : A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still. To the Unbiassed the whole thing seem very clear and simple. The great majority of the sincere aud practical politicians North and South demand total, unreserved, and final governmental separation between the two countries— even as complete and total a separation f as that between Victoria, Tasmania, and New South Wale*. How plaia ! Give vi two real legislative governments for the two naturally separated countries, instead of the existing ten : then, arrangements will be easy, aud solvency easier. But, then, the " geographical centre" doctrine, on which Wellington rode away shouting, will so seem quite another thing. A fair average of disinterestedness in adhering to the right, the fit, and the proper, irrespective of consequences to private persons, would, I am sure, save such writer? from perplexity and distracting dubiety whilst considering the propounded only practicable plan of the necessary and called-for retrenchment. Generally, however, freedom may be supposed to be sufficient to counteract self seeking. But when, for a purpose, anyone calls the plain obscure, he must be simply disbelieved. — I am, &c, W. E. Sadler. June 11, 1868.