THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL AND THE SETTLERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1312, 30 January 1868, Page 3

THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL AND THE SETTLERS.

To the Editor of the Herald. Sib,—Having watched with interest sinco my arrival in this colony, the political sfcnt" of the Province, and more particularly the recent debate, Provincialism v. Centralism, it appears to me the settlers loee eight of the only way they hare to attain any political object they may wish or desire. It is not in the Provincial Council that their battle is to be fought, nor is it on the hustings, where the feelings and opinions of both candidates and elcc'.ore are but momentary, but it is in the Registration Courts, for, as Lord Derby has often eiiid: ".It is not in tho House of Commons that the buttle of the Constitution can be fought, but it ie in the Registration Courts." It behoves the settlers to be on the move; cow ie the proper time for those who are not registered to register their claim to a rote, and let them join together in union, for union is strength, to carry out those objects which they consider to bo for their good, and reiiit those motions which they likewise consider to be detrimental to the Province. Let them not delay, tcmptis fujit, but do at once as the late Sir Robert t'eel said, " Hegister, Uegister, Register." It should be remembered that the majority carry the day, anl curry with them those feelings and opinions beneficial to the community.—l am, &c, W. H.