POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE
(BT TELEGRAPH.) (ntOU OCP. OWS CORRESPONDENT) Wellington, Jnly 19. As J advised you was his intention. Mr W. P. Reeves is moving for a Royal Cammission to inqnlre Into the general and loctl administration of this colony, with a view to further retrenchment in the Civil Service. Ho wants the Commission set |up shortly, with instructions that their [report bo laid before the new Parliament | —lf possible at the beginning of the first session.
Ministers were taken to book yesterday for nezlectlng to fulfil tbe promise made in 1838 that the Native Department and that of the Coloaial Secretary should be amalgamated. Tbe Native Minister explaiced that tbe Government had not yet seen their way to make tbe amalgamation promised. The expense tbe Native Department proper had, he added, been considerably reduced. There was, be thouzht, some possibility of a redaction in expenditure by the amalgamation of tbe Native Lands and Justice Department, and tbi3 was nosr onder consideration. It was also contemplated to transfer the purchase of native lands to tbe Linda Depart* ment.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4725, 21 July 1890, Page 3
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