“ We shall sell to no man justice or right: We shall deny to no man justice or right: We shall defer to no man justice or right.”

It is a matter for congratulation that the small show of opposition made at the meeting on Monday afternoon, to the adoption of a Petition to the House of Representatives, praying for financial Separation from the Province of Auck land, was withdrawn on the one hand, and overcome on the other. Indeed it is difficult to understand how, with the arguments advanced in support of the prayer of the Petition, and with, a Resolution having for its object the same practical effect, Mr. Gbekne should, until the end of the meeting, have

indirectly espoused the cause of those who pronounced emphatically against the movement, and of those who wanted the question shelved for a period of six months: he did wisely in withdrawing hie proposition in preference to having it cast out by an adverse vote.
