MEUM AND TUUM.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 372, 21 April 1876, Page 3

MEUM AND TUUM.

I ('Now Zealand Tablet.') ; -History-records few more-flagrant ; fitteinpikHaf; -bafefafee r d';.pa.iinaer?than this eentralisinglproject of theVpreseirt JMinistry. They propose to destroy jfcnfr 'Provincial ' institu'tionsi'of .'•Gta'g'd. jand AucMan'd, : not c&ly wtthSuVasidng jthe leave of these, .provinces, but in de° ffiant opposition "to'tUb unanimous jwishes of their,, inhabitants... Except jin.iinies ..o£.war,"or.. insurrection, there iHeVer.! fm , k#P>yn. ( such< ,3 jWhen England desired the parliameiii itary union' '6fi[Seotiand7:andiTfoeland, ithei •Parliatndnts''of f'theseVt\vo cotoitries were consulted, and by some j means, %ejr-r-consent, -expressed at I ijherc in not ! e Y en /|he'; pretence" of 1 consideration, I decency, pr. constitutional action, when i against th£-rights/ Ktiear-*' j ties and pecuniary, infer.ests of at leak | some of the attempted ; and so far partially. perpetrated, The '■■ people were tiofc'consulted'in the first ! instance, as they .ojught to have been : 'their local Icgblahimi --v-re v.oi >'Gi\-

•suH ed. rati, a IJ.-; -and even no\\\ .after the elections have proved..that the.people of Otago and Auckland'are almost to a man opposed to Abolition and; Centralism, the Central fiovernineni; perseveres, in..'its wicked determination, Ao make Abolition an accomplished fact. ■■--..■'■:;.

And what is the pretence ? "Why, that some * ( of. •tlie r .i'i;oyince.s, .notably r Auckland, are too" poor to' pay their 'way; ; ;Auckland 'indignantly, denies this, .and maintains that her present financial deficits arise from:the. action of tho Central Government itself. And I-this we believe'to Ke"the "'truth." But granting, for ! dr^ument'« ;; sa'k'e, ; that.th-e' statement of the Central.. r G-oyernment rjislcoifrect. the povei'ty.of the Provinces can .only be reirieaied By "the r'telies- |f the msre prosperous Province, ? . .of. Abolition r g(3lv'e^^itseifMnto ''this- ! Tho l 'p•'66^ ; • i lToVlh'ee^' , d,i , e'- ; to''- i F>e''anniliilaied because;•t : h'eyoja , e;,poD.r,iand the rich Provinces pfrQtago and Canjterbury. Jie.cau.s_e.. they are rich. _Aud is not this -DoliticaLCommunism ?