THE WELLINGTON PRESS UPON SEPARATION.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 2, Issue 60, 13 November 1858, Page 3

THE WEL LING TON PRESS UPON SEPARATION.

. The Lsdeeekdekt. — The c Wonga' from Napier brought us a report of the meeting held there on the"(2oth ultimo, for the purpose, of adopting a petition for the separation of that district into a newiprovince. As the petition had, at. the last dates, about 190 signatures, far more than are required by the Act, the matter may how be looked upon ag conclusively determined. The settlers' committee, appointed to make such preparations as may be found necessary during the transition period, is largely composed of the more moderate members of the community, and they have adopted a very friendly communication to the government here, ft is scarcely worth while for us to ;say anything on the separation movement just now ; when the steed has gone it is scarcely worth ; while to bolt the door ; but there are some phases j ©tttTvkleh may be profitable to ourselves to con- • sider shortly, espscially the repudiation of a fair share of the loan contracted by the provincial government of Wellington. The Spectatoe. — The gross mismanagement of Dr. Featherston and liis attendant kites has so disgusted ths Ahuriri people, that their petition for separation goes up this very day (as we are informed) to Auckland, signed by 80 more persons than the required number. It is understood that liisvExcellency assured Mr. Ferguson, the member foivi/he county of Hawke, that no delay should take place in granting the prayer of such a petition, if the conditions demanded by the "New Provinces Act" were complied with. Thus, onethird of the province, and that portion from which our land revenue was almost entirely derived, will be a separate province within a few months, if not weeks, from this date. Already candidates for the new superintendency are -spoken of as in the field.,.. We have heard mentioned Mr. George ■Si^oh Cooper, one of the Commissioners "for Na-' tive Land Purchase ; and Mr. H. S. Tiffen, at present, the Assistant Surveyor and Sub-Commis-sioner Of Crown Lands. We shall soon, then, be reduced in the remnant of the province to working out the remnant of the loan, with but little assistance from land-reveuue. And we repeat that, | at the wasteful and extravagant rate in which per- ] fectly irresponsible persons are now spending it, the goose with the golden eggs will very soon bs killed, and cease to have the power of buying votes, as well as that of half doing public • works. "