IMPOTENT RAGE.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1587, 14 August 1885, Page 2

IMPOTENT RAGE.

The North Island has declared war a outrnnce against what Mr Wakefield eails a '- miserable intrigue," viz.. tho inclinati.u shown by Sir Julius Yogel to do much less than bare justice to Canterbury. So be it Wellington has thrown down the gauntlet. We must carry the war into tin* nemy's country. If it turn out that it is impossible tor us So get justice from a Parliament sitting in Wellington, Parliament must sit somewhere else. The air rou d Port .Nicholson lias long been too clo.se and confined. The General Assembly wants a free atmosphere. No insuperable obstacle exists to shifting the seat of Government from Wellington to Christchurch. No iosno. -able obstacle stands in the way of the Colony's giving large pow?rs of self government to that _?»• city of the North, Auckland, the Corinth of New Zealand, whose brilliant commercial future we bave always recoguised as we have unhapj pily had to recognise the hope. -ssdi. *rgotice of its interests from ours. For the prjsont our members, with those of Nelson and West bind, must stand firmly together, and, backed up by pnblic opinion from home, must tight ior the line. It" immediate success is not possible, th" fi^ht must Ij. protracted. Wellington must be made to eI. Not a vote, not a grant, not s penny of mon-y must be allowed tt* pnss onr members until we can get something like* justice. Oar representatives ou^ht to be quite strong enongh to stop tlie m ichine by which Welling i ton grinds the Colony. This may be ! found the only way. . . . Tli. ; arrogance and insolence of these lords J of Centralism i.s almost past belief. To ! listen to th-ir talk it might be thoughtI that other New Zealeander were bond_j men, tit on y to hew wood and draw water for ti.eir Wellington masters. In our opinion nothing but bird kuocl » will cure the.se pc >p'e of tt_ ir delusion ► The battle beiore o:ir members should ' c nrither easy nor short. I must be remembered that they are in the en. my** ground. Cut off by the sea and the Wellington hills and valleys from all contact with the rest of the Colony, they are isolated and surrQiimled. Canterbury public opinion musr, tun ti.e blockade. We mnst send them ammunition aud supplier, good wishes, cordial support, facts figures, arguments, and thanks. Those and only these will enable the Canterbury, garrison to old out iv Wellington, — 'Lyttelton Times.'