The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATUBBAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1843, 28 November 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATUBBAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1874.

His Honok the Superintendent has issued a Gazette Extraordinary, containing the correspondence which has passed between himself and the two Ministers of the Crown whose offices were invoked to sanction the Superintendent's proposed visit to Britain in the character of an emigration agent. The two Ministers of the Crown with whom a correspondence was opened are the Hon. Daniel Pollen, Colonial Secretary, and tho Hon. > H. A. Atkinson, Secretary for Crown Lands; and these gentlemen from the first appear to' have set their facen

against the proposed mission' of the Superintendent and the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Ancldand; for, it may be mentioned, that throughout the correspondence no mention is made of the intention of the Superintendent to take with him the Provincial Secretary. The correspondence simply shows that as soon as the Superintendent disclosed his plans he was met by opposition from the General Government. This was only what might have been expected considering that the plan was published, if not matured in a very sudden manner, calculated to cause surprise. His Honor's explanatory letter, however, contains much information which it would have been better to publish as a prelude to his intentions rather than as an explanation of the reasons by which he was actuated in conceiving the idea and at the same time abandoning it for the present. From this letter we gather that His Honor had the trip to the Home Country in view a year ago; that at the meeting of Council and subsequent session of the Assembly, when the Auckland Waste Lands Act was passed, he had it his mind to cairy out personally the work of an immigration' apostle in the way of promoting special settlements. We can only conclude that His Honor was badly advised in the manner of carrying out his intentions. If his final letter, in which he abandons the project for the present, had been the first intimation of his designs, there would have been less ground of suspicion as to his real objects ; but we cannot see anything in the correspondence, although His Honor strives to make out a good case, which would have justified the Superintendent and Provincial Secretary in carrying out the plan they had mapped out for themselves.