SEPARATION FOR EVER!

New Zealander, Volume 11, Issue 981, 8 September 1855, Page 3

SEPARATION FOR EVER!

To the Editor of the New-Zealander. Dear Mr. Editor, — 'Up! Hip! Hip! Hurrah 1 Excuse the exuberance of my feelings, and allow mo to congratulate you and my fellow Provincials, on the speedy tro-pecl of onr emancipation from Southern fangs —from the curse of being Traversed and counted out —and from the pickings, plunderings, malignings, and snubbings, to which we have been so lung and unjustly subjected. Only think, my good sir, —the painter is about to be cut—the North and the South are shortly to nan company-—each is to steer its own course ; and Auckland, oallan r long suffemino AND MUCH INJURED).\I CKLAXD—IS AUOUT TO UEOOME A SBI’AU ATE AND IN DKI'KN DE A T COLONY ! Think of that, sir, and join me heart and hand, in a jolly Hip! Hip! Hip! and Hurrah! Lot ns not forget our good friend Mr. Busby, on this occasion Thanks to his perseverance in the Provincial Council, onr Prayer for Separation was, two yearn since, brought under the consideration of her Majesty’s Government. And thanks to his Excellency Col. Wynyard, who manfully made the removal of the seat of government a i open question, on condition that Auckland should have Her LieutGovernor, and her distinct, separate, and unfettered jurisdiction, political, territorial, and financial ! And, sir, do not let us overlook the ‘‘ Clean Shirt Ministry’’who have been so instrumental in aiding this good work. Personally, I have every respect for our Southern friends ; but friends agree best at a distance; and when our friends do come to Auckland they have a nasty habit of putting their hands into our pocket and buttoning it up against onr own necessities. Now, it will be every man on his own hook and so sir, let ns have a fair start, ami sec which can shoot ahead the fastest. I could say a great deal more, but your space is short, and my heart is full Only this, 1 hope the days of Superintendents arc numbered. Depend upon it a Lieut.-Governor at 2000/. a-year would bo dog-cheap—whilst a Superintendent with the duplex and tortuous movements of Provincial and General machinery cats into the very life's blood of Colonial Progress. Auckland, Sept. Cth, 1855. To the Editor of the New-Zealander. Sm, — lour respected contemporary, with the “intuition” of an Atipodean Jenkins, informs his readers that Colonel Browne “ intuit'vely” discovered that the spirit of Constitutional Government was embodied in the porf y form of Mr. Clifford ; and it is considered by the Editor as a “good omen” that his Exce leney singled the honorable Speaker from out the “ magnates” assembled on the wharf, and “ walked with him to the town.” Sir, if the member for Wellington has the “ form and pressure” of Constitutionalism, the spirit must lie a “ choice spirit,” and must have a quick eye for comfortable quarters; no one will doubt that he is well lodged. If, however, Mr Clifford is the representative of the Constitutional spirit, what kind oj spirit lodges with the hou. member far the Bay of Islands, or with the bilious, crabbed, cantankerous Superintendent of Auckland ? There were Eros and Auleros in an ancient faith ; Constitutionalism also, I suppose, has its evil genii, and perhaps “ these be they.” The Kditor of the “Cross” has some difficulty in catching the s yie of the Court Newsman. He must not he discouraged by a first ridiculous attempt at fitmkeyism. I am Sir, yours Ac., (Juts. August 7th, ISo 3.