UNEQUAL REPRESENTATION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 69, 22 August 1874, Page 7

UNEQUAL REPRESENTATION.

To the Editor of the New Zealand Tablet. Sib, — In the issue of the Tablet of the 15th msb, you throw oat a very good suggestion in reference to the very unequal manner in. which the colonists of New Zealand are represented in the House of Representatives- As matters stand at present, Dunediu, which, according to the last census, bears a population of about 19,000 people, has only two Representatives in that House, while Taraaaki which bears a small population of 5,000 has three representatives. Marlborough with a population of 6,000 and Hawke's Bay with, a population of 9,000 have each two members, while Dunedin with her large population has only the same number. The .suburbs of Dunedin are also 'represented in 'the same manner. In fact, sir, Otago and Canterbury are so under represented in the Assembly that ib must be next to impossible for these Provinces to get justice at the bauds of the other Provinces. It is monstrous that it should be left in the hands of the representatives of those small Provinces to decide how the colouy should be ruled and wliat Bhould become of the land- revenue of Otago and Canterbury. The scheme which Mr Vogel has now on hand having fop its end the abolition of the numerous miniature parliaments in the North Island, is a praiseworthy one, and will no doubt gaiu the favor of the majority of the Colonists. What his chances of success are I will not predict, etill there cannot be the slightest doubt but that if ho had first got the people more equally represented in the Assembly, his ohances of success would have been perfectly certain. — I am &c, August 13, 1874. C. R. CHAPMAN.

Great Britain has now 36,000,000 spindles in her mills 3 the United States, 8,000,000 ; France, 5,700,000 ; the German Z >llverein, 4,300,000, of which Alsace possesses 1,700,000; Russia, 2,000,000/; Switzerland, 1,800,000; Austria, 1,400,000; Spaiu, 1,400,000; Belgium, 600,000 ; Italy, 500,000 ; and over 2,000,000 in other countries. William Adair, a Cherokee Indian, has beeu admitted to practice law at the bar of the United States Supreme Court. Thii is the first lawyer of the red race.