THE MONTHLY SUMMARY OF THE LYTTELTON TIMES WILL BE PUBLISHED ON SATURDAY NEXT, MAY 13. Th Lyttelton Times. THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1865.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1398, 11 May 1865, Page 4

THE MONTHLY SUMMARY OF THE LYTTELTON TIMES WILL BE PUBLISHED ON SATURDAY NEXT, MAY 13. Th Lyttelton Times. THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1865.

The tone of the Auckland press upon the affairs of the colony is exceedingly violent. The newspapers exhaust themselves in inventing new nicknames for, and new arguments against, Mr. Weld, his colleagues, and policy. The Waikato immigration scheme, which was to have been so great a gain for Auckland, lived only long enough to introduce a number of men, women, and children —enough to give the greatest anxiety in dealing with them, but not enough to satisfy the hopes of the older settlers, who hoped that after men would come money, and after money, public works and land and trade and immensely inflated prosperity. We look on the other side of the picture from the Aucklanders. They regret that the former Government was not left to carry out such a magnificent undertaking; we regret that the Weld Ministry has fallen heir to such a miserable mistake. We can, however, understand, and even pity, the grievances of our Northern friends. It is almost worse than having no protector to have a too generous one suddenly removed. Had the Whitaker Government never promised wealth, prosperity, and protection, Auckland would never have been disappointed. Had the hope never been entertained that colonial money should provide settlers, land, and roads for their province, the Aucklanders might have applied their own provincial borrowed money to the purpose. But they were permitted to indulge the hope that, while they were borrowing and spending on one set of objects as much as they could possibly raise on their expectations, the General Government should borrow and spend an enormous sum for them on another set of objects; and that the General Government would kindly hold any claim on this account as the last of all the liabilities of the province. The Auckland people have come to think it hard that they should jjot borrow from the colony without security; they were promised the favour from Mr. Whitaker, and they denounce Mr. Weld for refusing it. This, of course, is quite a separate question from the duty of the coloDy to the immigrants themselves, who were brought out by the late Government. We are glad to see that something is being done, both to satisfy the Waikato settlers and to reduce the cost which their importation throws on the country. The Provincial Government of Auckland will not act, and the General Government must. So Dr. Knight is occupied in arranging new terms of settlement, and Major Atkinson is now in Auckland to help in concluding the arrangements.