Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 146

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central legislation and authority, and leave local wants in many ways not well attended to and local aspirations unsatisfied. Yes the old Province had many good points. There was somewhat too much haste in the act of obliteration. Politics fortunately cannot command the power of destroying ancient memories and associations, and the probability is, that when the time arrives on the 16^th December 1900 – how few of the old ones will be there – those who remain, and their descendants, will give the other provinces of New Zealand their idea of an old English Jubilee, in commemoration of the planting upon virgin soil of the first footsteps of the old Canterbury pilgrims, the founders of the glorious Province of Canterbury, the England of New Zealand.