(To the Editor.)

Sir, —At the present juncture of an impend ing general election it may not be out of place, but be of some benefit to the electors of this portion of the colony, who have now a chance to return as their representatives men who will be united and work together and look after the interests of this portion of the colony, to quote a passage which I found in a pamphlet written some few years ago relating to the public spirit of the people of Auckland, which is as follows :—

." Auckland alone has no common article of faith ; no common foundation on which to build. It's people have been thrown together from the distant corners of the earth. In strong contrast to the other colonists, in their several homes, the people of Auckland are essentially heterogenous. In the professionSj in trade, in private and public life you may jostle in one short day against the extremes of character. Every changing tide of events has brought its accession of strange persons The people of Auckland alone have no esprit dv corps, no public spirit. The, inhabitants of Auckland are not indeed a people. They are an aggregation of individual human atoms, each one as a rule thinking only of his own miserable interests. And so they can never act together. Their representa tives are true to their constituencies-they also never act together. Given any sub ject of importauce debated in the House of Assembly, especially any subject affecting the welfare ot Auckland itself, and you shall see half of the Auckland members voting on one side and half on the other. Thus she has no voice in the councils of the country. Her hands are fettered ; her feet are tied. One good man representing the whole province would bo better than the sixteen members who annually go down to Wellington. He, at all events, would give utterance to the wants, the complaints, the hopes of the community. But now the sixteen are split into two factions, and, " A house divided against itself cannot stand." No other community in the British Empire would endure such conduct. Auckland is rightly served. 