WELLINGTON.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1635, 15 May 1875, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

(Per Press Telegram Agency.) This day. Further Prorogation of mentA " Gazette Extraoadinary " issued to-day prorogues Parliament from tke 31st May to the 30th June. The " Times" on Sir Geroge Grey. The Times this morning repels Sir George Grey's attacks on the Colonial Government. It argues that it Otago received a greater proportion of immigrants than Auckland, it was because the late Superintendent of that province strongly urged upon the Government to send them only special settlement, families and single women being afraid that the province was unable to absorb to any great extent the labouring class of ordinary kinds. Otago, on the contrary, cried out "send us labour," and when immigrants poured in thousands in the depth of the winter of 1874, and could not be absorbed at once, the Provincial Government kept them at its own cost, until the spring. With reference to land, it points out that it was at the request of the Superintendent that large sums were spent on the acquisition of the Coromandel Peninsula land that is unsuited for settlement, though no doubt valuable. In other parts of the province no doubt barren land had been bought, because it is impossible to get any considerable blocks of good land in it. The land is notoriously patchy, with little good, more indifferent, and by farther the greater portions bad. That is precisely what Sir George Grey complains of, but his complaint should be directed against dame nature, and not against the Colonial Government.