PAPAKURA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 2018, 8 July 1870, Page 4

PAPAKURA.

L r "°J' OUR OWN' COItI:i:SIMNI)KNT. j July (j. Although there was not quite so large a number of cattle to-day at. the I'apaUura market, as usual, there wns a full attendance of buyers from all the surrounding districts, nnd prices ruled fully as high as have lately been ohtained nearer town. In course of cwiivpriutiun among the settlers I found a general expression of disappointment that there is no si-n of l.h? Government being inclined to introduce into tho House of Assombly, during I lie present session, a measure having for its object an amendment of the representation. The settlers in these districts and more especially those located in the electoral district, of Franklin, feel, and 1 think with good reason, that in an election conducted under I lie present regulations, thev would be virtually misrepresented, since the Thames goldfields—being included in Franklin —from the very force of numbers, could carry any two condidnles they pleased Of cvurfe, we do nol mean io l y that any members ret urn. d through tiie mining interest must necessarily he antagonistic to us; hot the fiiet remains whether or no, and the agricultural interest, which should be considered at least equal to, if not paramount

to, all others in this colony, would in such an | event, in the Franklin district at least, be entirelv overbalance I by others whose aims may be, for the nonce, diametrically opposed to it. Some of the electors of Raglan also complained, that owing to the extensive area of their district, including as it does all tiie country wcit of the giva- .South Road from the Manukau to the far end of the Waikato, and its consequent umvieldliness in working, that something oii'„'ht immediately to be none to remedy tho exiting stale of things. Many are of opinion that this large district, should bo sub livided into three with one mem her each, and then each separate division would be more likely than at present to work hnrmoniously ; and as the districts would ho much more easily .worked, co-operation I>r common objects would be far more feasible* than at present. 11l consideration of these views, a meeting of

the committee of the Raglan and Franklin Reform Association is convened tor Monday next, at threw p.m., at Papakura, which it is confidently hoped will result .in a public meeting lining called for the immediate purpose ofdiseussing these important questions, and endeavouring by united action to ellect a lemedy for the grievances complained of. [We may inform our correspondent that it is the intention of the Ministry to adjust the representation oi the Colony, indeed the 13i 11 is very probablv even now brought in.—bd. N.Z.11.] *