The Globe. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1875.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 428, 27 October 1875, Page 2

The Globe. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1875.

The first scene in the Superintendental drama will be opened to-night, when it is'expected that the programme of the party at the coming elections will be announced. The Macandrew banquet is to be attended by the Superintendents of Auckland, Wellington, and Canterbury. The old saying that adversity makes one acquainted with strange bedfellows is certainly true in the present instance. Here we have his Honour the Superintendent of Canterbury, a representative, hitherto, of the aristocratic and highly respectable Canterbury settler, about to take part in a demonstration in honour of a gentleman whom a few years ago we do not believe he would have cared to recognise. But apart from personal considerations, we would ask in all earnestness what have these gentlemen in common, and if they were to succeed to place and power how could they possibly agree. We have Sir George Grey who has announced over and over again his intention of never resting till he secures justice to Auckland. And what is his idea of justice to that province? Why the seizure of the land fund of the Middle Island, to bolster up the bankrupt finances of the North Island provinces. Sir George Grey has stated on more than one occasion that the compact of 1856 was a gross injustice to Auckland, and that he would consider it his duty to use all the means in his power to get it set aside. What then would follow were Sir George Grey and his sympathisers to succeed to power ?—Why an attempt would be immediately made to make the land fund of the colony colonial revenue. Our grants to Eoad Boards, and for educational purposes would be at an end. We should have to tax ourselves heavily for the maintenance of our roads, the construction of our bridges, and the support of our schools, in order that those in Auckland might reap the reward which we have been enioying for some years, as the fruit of the prudence and wisdom of the present system of disposing of the waste lands of the province. We hope his Honour the Superintendent will be able to explain how he will act, should

the party with whom he has allied himself' succeed to power. With the exception of the Otago and Canterbury members, we think we can safely say that all the other anti-abolitionists are opposed to the compact of 185 G. This precious Superintendent stumping party have nothing iu common, either personally or politically, except their opposition to abolition. But they evidently intend to lose no time in taking the field. When the Dunedin demonstration is over, they are to make another display at Clutha, and when Otago is well stumped we may expect a visit of the band to Canterbury. We shall have the same old appeals over again which have formed the substance of Sir G. Grey’s appeals at stated intervals during the whole of the last session. We shall be asked in solemn accents to pause before we approve of the sacrilegious act of last session, which swept away those institutions “we had learned to love.” But we are very much afraid the only answer will be derision or laughter. Of late years provincialism in Canterbury has not tended to create in the minds of the electors any very strong sentiment of love and veneration, and we believe the people of the province will only be too eager to welcome a measure which will secure to them real local self-govern-ment, and the management of their local revenues.