EVENING SITTING.
The House resumed at 7.30 p.m. Mr Seddon was amongst the speakers in the Address-in-Reply debate tonight. He expressed pleasure at the general tone of the debate and at the small amount of criticism the Government policy had been subjected to. The Government had been blamed for omitting any reference to the licensing question in the Governor's Speech, but he pointed ont that the tariff revisions ot 1895 and 1900 represented remission to taxpayers of over one million sterl ing, while half a million of remissions had been given to the people through railway reductions. Our financial position was still the best of all the Australablan colonies, and he strongly deprecated decrying the credit of the Colony for party purposes. The cry for freehold for Crown tenants came from large landed proprietors who had the aggregation of large estates in view. In defending Mahuta's appointment, he denied that Mahuta was landless, and declared he had 21,000 acres in his own name. Mahuta had informed him that he would be in Wellington MfrU. After the Telegraph Office closed the debate was brought to a close, and I the Address in-Reply agreed to.
The House rose at 1.55 a.m. Seventy-two members took part in the debate.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 169, 18 July 1903, Page 4
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