THE NEW PROVINCE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 2, Issue 62, 27 November 1858, Page 5

THE NEW PROVINCE.

?TH£,&riip\dng extract from a letter written •by. almetnher of the General Assembly to a cdrre.spondent in Napier, will be read with interest :— : .''"-'I/trust you'will be satisfied with what has Been done in the .Assembly about the new Provinces. Hawke's Bay can now start- immediately on its own account and

no doubt will prosper accordingly. I think the Bill is a very good one and does all that conid be expected. I always urged the ".Ministry" (as they are called) to make new. Provinces, not Municipalities, — and they found on going into details, that call the thing what they might, it would viitualty.be a new Province, unless they contented themselves with what certainly would

; 'not liave contented you— giving you the \*pb\ver of taxing yourselves, ■while Cusv 7 toms Revenuesf&c, were voted "by the" Province of Wellington. So now you, have nothing to do but give three cheers and go-ahead . * ' "Mr/ Ferguson came up just in'time (like the Prussians at Waterloo) to help to complete £he already beaten foe. The Suffer-

iritendentpf Auckland 1 a 1 said in the House » of.v-.ft©p^§entatives that his letters from ; Hawkes's Say led him- to believe that the :-r. residents tbers would be dissatisfied with a Bill which constituted their district int o a Province.. I replied that I would stake xny existence they would receive the news with exultation. I was glad Mr. Ferguson -when he cameup confirmed my opinion."