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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1759, 22 August 1874, Page 2

THBcityof Auckland and the country districts are evidently at variance m considering the Premier's proposals for the .abolition of Province*. This is not to be The 1 capital towns of Proi

yinces are the only districts really benefitted by Provincialism. In one ortwo' cases the very existence of provincial capitals' is <at •'-stake, «o- that it ■> will not, be surprising to find,that those whose interests are bound up in the capital op.pose abolition. The Thames people have spoken out boldly and plainly, as wo ,expected they would. The abolition' of Provincialism in the North Island is but the indication of a' change of government which the altered circumstances of the colony demand. Should the motion for a dissolution be carried we believe that; two thirds of the new Assembly will; be composed of men pledged to the total ■ aboHfeioni/of Provincialism.' Tie C9un-; try districts 'in all the^ Provinces I are in favor of centralisation. They know that they have reason.to expect more justice from a central government than from existing Provincial institutions, which have passed their prime. Like their principal administrators, they have seen their best days, and should be decently superannuated before they hare too far exceeded the allotted span. Dying now they may be lamented, but not regretted; prolong their existence, and they will expire in the course of time unlamented,Junregretted, and execrated^ as a burden which hung?—like the alba?, tross on the neck of the old man of the ; sea—until it became unbearable,^; The ' capital cities may try to .perpetuate Pro. ; vincialism, but the country places will! have Centralism, which simply means; Localism.