* Burns, their member, and protesting against, factious opposition and talking against tim« in 1 the House. Once more let us gay we are espe cially pleased these very proper protests should

come from Dunedin ; they show that the sen sibleand 3ober part of the people there are thoroughly distrusted with the way mwhich their members have abused and are abusing their functions. But the distinguished ' Unknowns who constitute the ' Political Committee' want ' to provide for the worst by concerting mea sures for our own protection through the inecrium of the Provincial Council or otherwise. ' " Then it proceeds : "Is it mere rhodomontade ; or is it an open incentive to rebellion ? The Provincial Council is by law forbidden to meet : it is, in fact, a thing of the past. Do these people really wish Mr Macandrew to commit himself to an open «ct of daring illegality and disloyalty ? We fancy that, whoever else may be fools, Mr Macandrew is rxmch too canny to become the tool of theoe^ wiseacres. __ These gentry, after condemning the action of the re monstrants as unwarrantably interfering with the freedom of action of the members for the City, coolly go on themselves to do the very thing they condemn in others. After requiring ■the members to desert then- posts in the Assem bly, they are pleased to enjoin that, before leaving, they are to make an important intima tion. ' Let it be understood,' cay they, ' that, whatever measures affecting the welfare of this people may be agreed to, that they will not undertake that such measures shall be respected by the people of this Province.' ' This people,' forsooth ! And ' they will net undertake !' Truly, this people are a peculiar people— a parochial people— a narrow-minded people— a selfish, greedy people, who are doing what they can to draw upon them the merited contempt of all right-minded persons in the Colony." I do not think that I will trouble you by reading any more of it. It is worth reading, gentle men. • What has Otago done, I would like to know, to bring down upon it all this vitupera tion ? It has been the milch cow of the Colony. 