The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1797, 6 October 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1874.

Me. F. H. Tboup, who seems to have assumed the role of a political reformer, and who writes long letters to the Auckland newsr apersin carrying outtbe role, has hit upon a plan to frustrate the " audacious attempts" of might to ruthlessly trample upon what he conscientiously believes to be right. The " audacious attempt" of might to trample on right referred to is the proposal of the Premier, approved by a large majority of the Parliament, to abolish the North Island Provinces; and Mr. Troup's plan to frustrate this is certainly novel. "My plan then is as follows:— Sir James Fergusson leaves the colony early in December. Let the Reform League, the City Council, the Chamber of Com r merce, and the Harbor Board co-operate with the City Council of the Thames, the Papakura Association, and the various j Eoad Boards throughout the Province, with the view of petitioning the Superintendent to call together the Provincial Council at the earliest possible date. Assuming this to be done, some such re-^ solutions as the following should be passed and forwarded by the Superintendent to his Excellency the Governor, with the request, that he would have the goodness to trasmit them at once to the Imperial Government as coming from the oldest local Council iv the colony under the Constitution Act, and as representing nearly one-fourth of the entire European, and perhaps one-half of the Maori population of New Zealand." Then follows a series of draft resolutions which Mr. Troup would have the Council pass and forward to the Imperial Government through the medium of .his Excellency the Governor. The writer of this letter, and author of this wise plan seems to forget altogether that outside of Auckland the expression" of opinion has been decidedly favorable to the abolition resolution, and that if the Provincial and Borough {Councils, Highway Boards and other associations reported to the contrary they would not represent public opinion. All the large, and important districts of the Province in which the feeling of the people^has been tested have declared for the abolition — the latest manifestation being that of Waikato, Major Jackson, who voted for the Premier's resolution, having received a unanimous vote of confidence from his constituents. The first resolution in Mr. Troup's plan protests " emphatically " against any such radical change' in the constitution as that contemplated by the abolition resolution ; the second is vague, and sets forth that after mature deliberation of the whole subject, something is declined unless on certain conditions, one of which is the abolition of all the Provinces simultaneously ; so that to our reading the second resolution in this great plan of salvation and regeneration stultifies the first. But possibly the writer purposely obscured his meaning, so that when the time; comes round for the "audacious attempt" to be made on our rights he may claim some credit for his plan whichever way the attempt may eventuate. ~