EVENING SITTING.

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EVENING SITTING.

The Houeo resumed at 7.30. In continuation ot the debate on the tmtion for going into Committee of Supply. # Mr Shkbhaw oontinued his remarks, tasves that wore it not for. the present theWaimate Plains would not be now .«■ aeset of the colony. The late GoTernmei* could never have achieved;«"& aeucc*«B. ; Mr Obicosd laid the Opposition were int • very sicUy but to judge by t» tone of the tpeeohee of the ***>>* ** were etrong, bow was it they *»*».£. eeeeion two months without any potW® of the public burinew heing and any opposUion offered then came W» their own eupporter.. The Oppo«to*jg wiUing to aesiefc the Government/•Wg* measwes embodying the Mer, but the measures broag" not bear out what ,tb£»«« $££&, Why, tbere woe not* vertigej.l charter of right*, toeerffrage,re.adju«tmen6^wi^a«aai ing to numbew, gESftfiS^ , j* g.-ess-aoveminaßt f \. f £ *« dared themJβ go ■*« *J« «J«J^jT^ga

• -* by the Government. On that too he invite the Go eminent to go to the •"ZZ-. Hereeretted not being in the Jlouse *£»fthe Native Minister referred to Mr Sj&Jj end Sir J. Togel, said the only reahe and his frieade had not the whole •"US, tmbliely discussed was that they vn* 3 - lhe ? lud the Polished of th* Attorney-General on tfie SfiU he had hearS and read enough B him to «*y that the allegation made these gentlemen were perfectly scanjfioteEid ehameiess. Neither of thowgenjTgea had done anything derogatory .to his Ifr JtsLAXOTTR sa£d the speech of the meni- . te Cut* waa a roost important one from tvL ede of the House, inasmuch as it gave them tm insight into a policy of which the {"IT member must be the accredited ex- ~°~* rt /f or he had no donbt the hon. £S«eH« wm to be the fcture head of the Jcllrv&tive party). And what were the ! ggSbefced? They showed he wa, to manhood suffrage, to redistribn£siof seals according to population, to one rS to triennial parliaments, and in favor of ""Zfbtttioes to tbe landed estate of the zS~sr He denied that his side of the House contempt on the repntatiocß of ifajYogd r Stafford, because it was nrisT to *^ c colony to detract from the ft-jjatiaci of her celebrated men. The only !2Lfc xosde against the Government was that Hnnter, who said that, as a large em- -%_ a of labor, he benefited by the Govern]n»nt pTOp Ma " i - Bnt he asked who wanted to Sfknje employers of labor ? It wa3 those -boered** fcrc'-rg for keeping sheep on unthat they wanted to get at. replied to several of the stat«--Tj, cf the member for Mount Ida, and j~£d that Use Opposition had in the least j«*«i! obstructed. He thought Government f-Sasaking the lame mistake in asking for _—ergons from their friends, as the member jSrEmont made last year. The Hon. the Sooal Treasurer would know what he cueist. B OWB tfce Go Temment P art 7 dld they were supporting beyond ft* they believed in Sir George Grey. He depree Jei the action of Mr Woolcock m rJ&g » di»cnasion that could lead to no good Mr Spttojt considered the Government mow liberal in promises than anything else. "Ther were ir consistent also. Whila they rioried in putting their foot down against Harbor endowment, they had some hundreds of fisoueaads on their estimates for local work*. He held it was the doty of the Government to make come arrangement by which the poor half-starved local bodies -would be enabled to «rry on thoce works which TO* *n absolute necessity, alike to these disfeicU and the conntry. Dr Hodgkixsox considered the fact of the Gofennneiit party so freely criticising IGnuterial measures, was the very best proof to be h*d of their strength. It was ■jcafc became the position of the Government WM *kat such frank cridcieai was offered. If the Premier had not fulfilled hie psaaim to completely as the hon. gentleman hiatsdf would have desired, it was solely beam* the present Parliament was an Abolition ose, *°** in to the reforms •wasted, the people would not be properly represented until a new Parliament was dieted. Bnlifta* he had achieved was perfectlr BSTftliimjiD so short a time. 3&g flehtte a aegtf inning.