SECESSION.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4063, 30 August 1870, Page 2

SECESSION.

We trust that no effort will be wanting on the part of our representatives at Wellington to prevent tho spoliation of the province by any suck move as that contemplated in the appended petition. Attempts to cut off a slice ot this province for annexation to Hawke's Bay have been so frequently made, and with such abortive results, that we had almost come to believe that a stop had been put to this kind of thing. But, apparently m the hope that the attempt, if fiequently repeated, must some day succeed, the people who are at the bottom of this scheme return to the charge again and again. We can remember the attempt not long ago made by Hawke'a Bay to despoil thia province of a large slice of valuable territory, and apparently the same thing is being tried again by underhand means. We trust our representatives will no effectually deal with this petition as to prevent fresh attempts of the kind. We understand that evidence has been given by the Superintendent of Auckland to the effect that until within a few weeks the Aucklaud Provincial Government had no control on the East Coas , but that since they had the control at Poverty Bay he has written asking them to constitute a Road Board, and that all thp revenue raised in the district will be spent there, besides a bonus from the Provincial vote for highway purposes. Perhaps there would be still le&s cause for complaint were a local agent of the province appointed at Poverty Bay to manage for the Provincial Government Probably a man interested in the distiict should be selected, and in such a case a small salary only would be required. — "To the Hon. ihe House of Representatives in the colony of New Zealand, in Parliament assembled, the memorial of the undersigned most respectfully showeth : (1.) That your memorialists are settlers resident in the distiact of Turanga, in the province of Auckland. (2.) That this district extends along a coast line of above 100 miles from Lottm Point to the southern boundary of the province of Auckland. (3.) That practically there is no communication whatever by land between any part of this district and Auckland. (4.) That the place in the district of most importance ia Turanganui, which is nearly 300 miles from Aucklaid. (3:) That hitherto this district appea 3 to have been an object of no interest to the Provincial Government of Auckland. (0.) That the distance between Turanganui and Napier by sea is less than 100 miles ; that communication between thetwo places isregularly kept up by land, and that the journey can be accomplished without difficulty in three days. (7.) That the occupations of the inhabitants of this district are more in unison with those of Hawke's Bay than with those of Auckland, and its geographical position and physical features strongly recommend its annexation to Hawke's Bay. (8.) That, in consideration of the abovementioned circumstances, your memorialists beg leave most respectfully to submit that it is necessary for the welfare and good government of this district that it should at once be included within the province of Hawke's Bay. — And your petitioners, aa in duty bound, will ever pray. — Signed by Charles Westrup, G. E. Reade, W. A. F. McDonald, Arthur Kempthorne, and 72 others."

Henry Bergb, the animalfchropist, is looking for the jockey who drove a horse so flespenrte to bre^k his hamstrings.