The English System,

or rather no-system, with its many defects and injustices, is too well known to require any comment from me. Those who wish to know what a powerful engine for oppression and robbery it is, have only to study the British Royal Commissions and the Hepburn and other Commissions of America. Indeed, they need not go out of this country; for a short time ago, when £75,000 was expended in the reduction of goods rates, £57,000 of this went to Canterbury and Otago, and the whole of the Auckland Province only obtained £2,700.