NATIVE CLAIMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8597, 12 September 1889, Page 2

NATIVE CLAIMS.

The Joint Committee on the Middle Island Native claims brought up their report to-day. The report is very lengthy, but the following extract gives the gist of the committee's recommendation:—"After very careful consideration and discussion, the committee have come to the conclusion that the only practical and effectual way to arrive at a satisfactory settlement is to cause careful inquiry to be made into the condition of the Kativea' land. If it be found that any have not sufficient land to enable them to support themselves by labour on it, to take power from time to time to make fuller provision by way of inalienable reserves to meet such cases. The committee are further of opinion that it should be the duty of some competent and reliable officers to report from time to the Government the condition of the Natives in their respective districts, and make such recommendations for their relief as may appear desirable, and that .such reports and recommendations should be laid before Parliament each session." The report is of an interim character, and the committee recommend that a similar committee be appointed next session to investigate further cases. THE OPPOSITION AND A DISSOLUTION. Mr Ballance's amendment is not one that he intends to be, or would like to see, carried. On the contrary, it is believed that nothing would take him more aback than to see it carried. What he wants to do is to pose before tho country as a man who desires to put an end to tho present confused state of affairs by the bold, independent course of dissolving and appealing to the country. He wants to say, in effect, that the Government are responsible for the present state of affairs, and that they are dragging on to stick to the benches as long as they can; the Opposition, ou the contrary, recognise that the only cure lies in the hands of the country. If ; the motion were an honest one, there is someI thing to be said for it.

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