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New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4405, 25 December 1875, Page 4

"_r- Electoral; - v\_r_ —;j -~. ~i~ TO THE ELECTORS OF THE TOWN OP ONEHUNGA. Gentlemen,—The strenuons efforts that were made during the recent session of Parliament by the Government and a majority of members of an expiring House oE Bepresentatives to overturn abruptly a primary part of the Constitution under which we ire having failed, an opportunity will shortly be afforded you of expressing at the hustings your opinion upon the attempt to strip the people of important privileges without consulting them and obtaining their consent. The dissolution of Parliament presents you with that opportunity, and I now appeal to yon to justify me and to resent the affront that was offered in striving to keep the people muzzled while the Constitution was being torn to pieces. As your Representative, I felt it to be my duty to co-operate with those who determined to have recourse to all the means which Parliamentary forms afford of preventing the Abolition of Provinces Bill becoming law and taking effect until the people of the colony should be heard on the matter. The attempt to filch from this Province the remnant of Local Government and legislative functions still left to us has been generally condemned, and it should be the duty of the newly-elected members to combine and devise means for elevating the Province from its embarrassment and depression. No lover of the Province of Auckland can be content with the present posture of its affairs, and every friend of freedom and independence within its bounds ought to shrink from allowing Its destiny to be controlled by the hands of men either ignorant of or hostile to its aspirations. Through the insidious and encroaching legislation of the General Assembly we have been stripped of a duo share of the revenues raised within the Province; we have been despoiled of possessing the capital of the Colony. We have indeed been humiliated, so far as this could be effected by adverse influences.

To redress our wrongs through the medium of th< General Assembly's legislation Is hopeless. And ol the plans that have been proponnded for accomplishing this redress, my own predilection is in favour ol erecting the Province of Auckland into a separate colony, so that all matters affecting the interests oi the Province shall be legislated upon within the Province, and under the eyes of the people of the Province. Should, however, the current of political thought set unmistakably in favour of the separation of the two Islands, I would accept that scheme, rather than longer put np with the prostration of our Provincial Government, or bow to the Abolition project, which tears from us the last shreds of independence. Better Hve under a Russian despotism, if impartial, than the nomineeism prepared to supplant our elective Superintendent and Provincial Council I purpose, if you think fit again to elect me your representative, to support, in no niggard spirit, the scheme of policy shadowed forth by our Superintendent, Sir George Grey, which I have briefly described; and I shall never consent to exchange the Superintendent whom the people of this Province delight to honor, for any member of Uie llinistry, or any subservient tool they may elect to set over ua. I am not deterred from espousing the cause of Separation—be it that of Auckland from the rest of the colony, or that of the two Islands—by factitious difficulties about Colonial indebtedness. Such difficulties did not stand in the way of the dismemberment of the Provinces of Wellington, Otago, and Canterbury, when the policy of sapping and undermining Provincial Administration was commenced by the Centralists of those days. In all cases ef federal Separation, the condition precedent is an adjustment of existing burdens, an equitable calculation of assets, and a consideration of losses sustained through compacts that may have worked unfairly. As regards the smaller Provinces of Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland, there is the strange spectacle presented to us of the authorities of those Provinces clamouring for the abolition of the offices they were elected to fill, and at Ihe same time clinging tenaciously to the emoluments attached to those offices. I believe it would tend to arouse those portions of New Zealand from thei r torpor if the reins of power with regard to Tarauaki and Hawke's Bay were to pass into the bands of the Superintendent of "Wellington, and as regards Ifelson, Marlborough, ana Westland into the hands of the Superintendent of Canterbury. Any savings arising from such annexation should be dedicated as '' substantial endowments" for the districts annexedI do not profess to be swayed by any maudlin sentimentality about a united Colony, nor am I captivated with such fumes of fancy as that New Zealand is to shoot up at once into a mighty power dominating these seas. My pretensions aro of a different colour. I desire to promote the hnppiners of the greatest number; not by inculcating Quixotic ideas, but by endeavouring , to ameliorate the condition of the masse?, by increasing the facilities for the acquisition of the soil, and by reducing taxation on articles of daily use, as was proposed last session with regard to tea, flour, and sugar. If I should on this occasion be again honored with your confidence, I shall in the future as I have endeavoured to do heretofore, hold that it is my first duty to watch over your interests; my next, to consult for the welfare of the Province, which is endeared to us by so many ties. I have the honour to be, gentlemen, Your obedient servant, G. MAURICE O'EOBKE. Onehunga, 2nd December, 1875. "jVTJtf. O'RORKE invites the Electors of -*-*-*- Onehunga to meet him at the Choral Hall, Qnean-street, Onehunga, at 8 o'clock, on MOHDAT next, the 27th inst, mo THE ELECTORS OF WAITEMATA. .OSentlemen,—Being assured that several of the candidates, desirous of representing your district in Parliament, are making an active canvass of tho electors, and endeavouring to obtain pledges of their votes, I deem it my duty to intimate to you that I disapprove altogether of trying to influence electors to give any promise whatever, and that I consider such proceedings to be virtually an improper interference with electors, and. calculated to destroy the usefulness of the vote by ballot, as also being likely to lend to the stirring up of animosity between, friends. I trust, therefore, that my mode of action may'not be misconstrued, into indifference to obtain the support of all. electors who may deem mewprthy of their confidence. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, J. S. AIACFAKLANE. Auckland, 16th December, 1875. - - TO THE ELECTORS OF WAITE- ,■.''. MATA. Gentlemen, —I beg to announce myself as a candidate to represent your interests in the forthcoming Parliament. I will take an early opportunity of expressing my views , on the Important questions now dccupying public attention. Yours obediently, ' .-'■'. .'.-' ■ ■: W. J. HTJKST. Auckland, December 9,1875. ... •(;■ , Produce, &o, XVLUE DERWENT POTATOES. A rery Prime Sample on Sale, in lots to suit pnr fl. S. MEYEBS A CO. T> RES. E R V.E.D . .MLEI, AT S. A recent shipment for sale, consisting o< ~B**i, M »« O n, Prftad Bead. &o. memjw