SEPARATION MEETING AT OTAGO.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XVII, Issue 992, 14 May 1862, Page 5

SEPARATION MEETING AT OTAGO.

A large meeting to consider the question of separation was held at the Theatre, Dunedin, on Saturday last, in the presence of 1000 people, His Honor Major Bichardson, Superintendent, in the chair. The following resolutions were put and carried:— iiAThat the proper government of the Middle Is'fimd of New Zealand from a seat of Government in the North Island, at all times inconvenient, has now, from the vast increase of European population in the Middle Island, become an impossibility." " That justice to the British colonists of the Middle Island, now numbering nearly 60,000 (sixty thousand) demands that legislation and administration for their interests, which are so dissimilar to those of the North Island, should not be, as hitherto, tramelled "by and sub-ordinated to considerations of a Native policy, with which the Middle Island has no immediate connection."

" That this meeting considers that the only remedy for the evils referred to in the foregoing resolutions is the separation of the two Islands, and the having a Government and Governor permanently. resident in the Middle Island, and that this separation should be effected upon terms consistent with the honorable -fulfilment by the Middle Island of all public liabilities to which it is now a party." "That a subscription be opened to raise the necessary funds for carrying out the agitation for separation to a successful issue." We shall publish the full proceedings in our next issue. AKRIVAI/ OF THE ESCORT. The Escort, which arrived in town yesterday afternoon, brought down 49760z5. 18dwts. of gold, of which quantity 34450z5. sdwts. were from Tuapeka, 7600z5. 15dwts. from Waitahuna, and 5440z5. Bdwts. from the Waipori, and 2260z5. lOdwts. from the Woolshed.— Daily Times, May 10.