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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 2, Issue 91, 18 June 1859, Page 3

The "VYeli/dtgtox 1 Advebtistir ok the affairs of Hawjce's Bat. — We do not agree with everything Mr. Fit?. Gerald ha 3 put forward in this speech, but we must defer lengthened comment on it until our next issue ; yet we cannot delay giving it the praise it merits. It clearly emanates from a well-balanced, thoroughly practical, and sufficiently acute mind. The Haw Ice's Bay folk with such men. at the head of their affairs, may ' -laugh at the sneers of a small section of professed politicians here, who seem to imagine that unless the government of every part of the Province is vested in their hands, the result must be anarchy and confusion. "We have no doubt that it is best for every separate locality, even with a small population—and perhaps "with men of not much ability or greatness— to manage its own afiairs, as best knowing its own business. But" when as at Ahuriri, it can shew on the spot an ability at least equal to that of any of ouv present rulers, all those who lovo the Sdxon principle of local self-govern-ment, must congratulate our neighbours on the fair promise of success which the opening proceedings of fchoir Council aflbrd, as well as on their emancipation from the rule of an alien and hostile triumvirate.