The New Zealand Herald. AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, SEP. 28, 1866.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 897, 28 September 1866, Page 4

The New Zealand Herald.

AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, SEP. 28, 1866.

BPECTEMUK AGENDO. " Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice : Take each man's censure, but roaerve thy judgment. This above all, —To thine own self be true And it must follow, as the nhtht the (lay. Thou canst not then be false to any m»Di"

THE POLITICAL POSITION. The news from Wellington is more voluminous than important in its character. The Order Papers of the House of .Representatives are crowded with orders of the day, notices of motion, and questions of great variety, and of a nature which may cause their discussion to be extended over a considerable space of time. If the. work of the session is to bo decently carried out and the business of the country faithfully and conscieneiously performed by those who have voluntarily assumed the responsibility of doinT so, the month of October must be far advanced before the House, with benefit tp the country, can be prorogued. Wo do not recollect one session, since that of 1858, in which the public business has not been disgracefully huddled up. Some of our Auckland men, it is said, are complaining loudly of the length of time they are kept absent from their homes and business. They forget, however, that once the Southern members, when attending the House at Auckland, were away from their homes for a period of five months. No men who cannot devote a hundred days to this duty, the fair time for a session, which includes a change of Ministrj' —ought to go to the electors for seats. The invariable .-result of hurry is tint the Government are all powerful in the last fortnight of the session, and knowing this postpone measures of importance till then. At the present time the House has reallv the whole of its work before it. There is no sa} r ing how long the opposition may still further delay the time of the House by fighting through the Stamp Bill in Committee, item by item. Now, our Auckland members should take advantage of this disposition on the part of members to run away from their Parliamentary duties to wards theclosepfthesession. Each day's prolongation, of the session, should

;He Viewied by tteiri aa a. -gain;? an'd.'::they. slibuld remain at: tbeir post: to the. yerjr,] last day. At rip time would the j fpurteen ' Auckland votes be so valued by the, iSf imatry, as-;'.at that period in; the: session, when, their voice,, thrpvyn on one,; side or the other, must carry victory with it, .Qur men can well afford to stay, .Southeria men must go to prepare for shearing.. Some of them, we see, have already leftj and more are preparing to follow. Our readers will remember the general feeling of satisfaction communicated to the public of Auckland by the appearance of an article pub.iishecl in the . New ZealaMJ lleraTjl) of'the 15th instant, headed " Auck-

" land's Prospects," ajid containing the extract from a private letter received from Wellington, in. which was detailed the intentions of the Groverument as relating, to the affairs of this province. Our readers, too, will also remember the feeling of general satisfaction expressed at a public meeting of ; a day or two afterwards, when Mr. Samuel Cochrane returned from Wellington a fewdays previously, and, deputed by the Auckland members iu Wellington, confirmed the statements already published in this journal. There was but one dissatisfied person at that meetint!;, all others felt and expressed their confidence in, and gratitude to the | Auckland representatives, for the efforts they had made on behalf of this province. That confidence and satisfaction was, we defy contradiction, shared by the public at large. Let our Auckland members now at Wellington fully understand this. Had we thought they would have been deceived as to the state of public feeling on the matter by the vaporings of the Cross, wo should have settled the question long since, by suggesting the pr.iety of calling a public meeting for the expression of the true feeling of the electors. We thought, however, that the influence of the 'Cross and its position at the present time in Auckland was too Well understood by any Auckland man to need explanation. It would seem, however, by the following extract from a letter received by a gentleman in Auckland from Wellington, yesterday, that tho writings of the Cross has been again productive of serious mischief to this province: " We members at a distance have to trust

"to the press as an exponent of public " opinion. Now, if the Cross still represents ■' public opinion in Auckland, it is clear that " our programme for Auckland is not popu- " lar. In that case we had better drop it; "it is hard to kick against the pricks. But " if the Cross misrepresents public opinion, " the Cross alone must hear the blame of that ■. " programme not heing carried out. The " Auckland men most positively will not " attempt to force their measures on the " public of Auckland." Now the Auckland public know what that programme was. They were fully satisfied to accept it as even more than ever they expected their representatives would succeed in obtain- \ ing for them, and it must be matter of bitter regret to hear that in the moment of fruition their hopes may be destroyed by the ill-con-sidered, impulsive writings appearing in a local journal. Mr. Whitaker's motion for the division of the Northern Island into two provinces was, it will be seen, lost; but only go, we understand, because Wellington did not think the time was ripe. If needed, it could, we have good reason to believe, he carried with ease next session, Mr. Whitakef did not propose to add innchto Auckland, merely to continue the boundary westward, along the 39th degree of latitude, embracing the northern portion of Taranaki. Mr- Buuny, we sec, has a motion for annexing Hawke's Bay to Wellington, and Mr. Newman another motion for annexing Auckland to Hawke's Bay ! We refer our readers for fuller account of the parliamentary intelligence to the letter of our Wellington correspondent. The parliamentary reports contained in our Ayellington coiUetnporaries are so excessively meagre as barely to give the headings of the several matters of business which have come before the House. We shall,; however, publish I them in. turn. 'in ■ - " i'