There is no doubt now as to the reception of the Abolition Bill in Auckland. No one has a word to say in its favour, and the strongest Government supporters can only say that it iB intended as a small instalment. They go about whispering that if the Government carry this they will then be strong enough to put the whole of the land revenue into one bag, abolish the Provincial districts, and so at last have one Government and a common interest throughout the Colony. To the credit of the people here be it said they disdain to listen to this view, as they did to that of partial abolition — as an instalment— ]a*t year. They want onty frank, fair action on the p ut of the Government, and will not hear of ulterior views that they dare not avow, as tending to mere personal Govern ment _ and unworthy a free people. I am surprised how instinctively this feeling rises among people here, and in quarters where it would be lea.-t expected. The dislike to trickery anil the love of fair play which always characterise the mass of the people is probably the caif-e. But there it is, at all events, and if you want to find approvers of the "tricky" course you must go higher up in the social scale very considerably. The people here have had tno much practical experience of the General Government to like the prospect of being ruled directly by them. On tne goldfields one would have thought that experience still more preju dicial ; but they seem to be divided, if we can judge by the papers, and Coromandel is dead against the Abolition Bill while the Thames is in favour of it. Sir George Grey's return to the Province will, however, no doubt make a roiisiilerable difference.
