PARLIAMENT OUT OF SESSION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 7563, 30 May 1885, Page 5

PARLIAMENT OUT OF SESSION.

ME T. THOMPSON AT AUCKLAND. [Pee Press Association,] AUCKLAND, May 29, Mr T. Thompson, member for City North, addressed his constituents to-night. He expressed his regret that the present Government was not formed on purely party lines, and saw no hopes of it next session, or indeed in the present Parliament. He bitterly denounced the district railways purchase scheme, and deprecated the enormous defence expenditure through the war scare, which he' thought should have been extended over a series of years. He was averse to the annexation of Fiji to New Zealand, and preferred federation of the Empire to federation of the Australian Colonies. A vote of confidence was unanimously recorded. WANGANUI, May 29. Mr Bryce addresses his constituents at Waverley on Saturday night, and at Wanganui next Wednesday. MR MACANDREW AT PORT CHALMERS. DUNEDIN. May 29. ’

Mr Macandkew addressed his constituents at Port Chalmers this evening, and received a unanimous vote of confidence. He deplored the centralism which existed, and believed no form of local government could be satisfactory under that system. He still thought something might come of his motion for the crofters, and he advocated that the same facility proposed for them should be given the unemployed in the Colony.. He did not believe the Government would call out the militia without the sanction of Parliament. It was not his intention, at the end of the present session, to seek re election, owing to the hours which Parliament sat. If it conducted its business during the day he might alter that determination. As a means of removing the depression, he advocated a State Land Bank, which could he worked in conjunction with the Land Transfer Department.