PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1916, 13 July 1889, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

YOUNG NEW ZEALAND PAETT, The Young New Zealand party are once more in evidence. They have met and passed resolutions to create and foster a strong national feeling; to oppose making the colony responsible for the debts of public bodies; to oppose Harbor Bills, and to establish an efficient system of local Government, besides blotting out all English names of places, and substituting Maori names. To create and foster a national feeling, oppose making the colony responsible for debts of local bodies, and establish, local government. Bravo Young New Zealand! You have brains of a kind, any quantity of them, but alas for their quality I Listen to this now, boys, The Borough Council of Timaru pays about 7* per cent, including exchange, for money which it has borrowed in England, The Government could have obtained this in England at 4 per cent, and lent it to the J imaru Council for 5 per cent. By doing this the colony would _ have saved 3? per cent, and the Timaru Boro ugh Council 2? per cent. You boys would foster a strong national feeling to carry on such unnational financing as this. The iimaru Council is only one of tha many instances that could be given, but perhaps you mean defaulting public bodies only. Be it so. Do you call it a strong national feeling to let Taranaki become bankrupt. ? To foster a national feeling you must first of all recognise that the whole colony is an organic structure, and that what hurts one organ must hurt the whole body. Perhaps some of you hoys remember getting your foot or hand hurt at football or cricket, which you lately quitted to make laws. Do you not remember that you felt uncomfortable all over then. It would be exactly the same with the whole colony if any of its public bodies became bankrupt. Ihe .whole col ony would feel it. It is right to make uadi part of the colony pay for its own improvements far as possible, but it is unnational | and unnatural for the whole of the colony to let one little spot become bankrupt. You have been the source of much anxiety to us, boys, since you went into Parliament. hop© that you will reflect, and assure yourselves that your national feeling is based on sound princi iples, and not the fanciful notioi is of your capricious brains, We regre fc to see that W, P. Beeves is amonigstthe boys. Heisayoung g e^ G " man of great promise, and undoubted ability, and the sooner he separates himse If from persons who think they are fo storing national feeling by making u.nnational and unnatural proposals the better for his own reputa-

tion. THE HAEE STSTEM, The following are the names of the member's said to be in favor of the Hare system:- —Messrs Allen, Atkin- • son, Anderson, Barron, Brown, Bruce, * Buchanan, Carroll, Cowan, Dodson, i Fergus, Fish, Graham, Hall, Hamlin, j Hislop, Hobbs, Hodgkinson, Hum--3 phreys , J ackson, J ones, Lance, Lawry

M'Arthur, Scobie Mackenzie, TMackenzie, Macgregor, Mills, Mitchelson. O’Connor,Ormond, Pyke, Rhodes, G-. P. Eichardaon, Boss, Saunders, T. Thompson, Yalentine, Whyte, Wilson, Withey. 'lhere is not a Liberal amongst them. CEOWN LANDSThe Orown Lands’ report says that the younger generation has been settling on the land. The area settled on during the year is 443,742 acres, taken up by 1779 settlers. The sum of £117,899 had been received in cash, and the total territorial revenue was increased by £35,277, BENEVOLENCE, The sum of £ll3 5s has been collected amongst numbers for the benefit of the widow and children of the late Mr Levestam, who died while a member for Nelson.