PARLIAMENT OUT OF SESSION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3330, 30 May 1885, Page 3

PARLIAMENT OUT OF SESSION.

(Bt Tblegbaph.) Auckland, May 29. Mr T. Thompson, member for Auckland City North, addressed his constituents tonight. He expressed hia 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 purchaso scheme, and deprecated the enormous defence expenditure through the war scare, which expenditure he thought should have been extended over a series of years. He was averse to the annexation of Fiji to New Zealand, and preferred the federation of the Empire to the federation of the Australasian colonies. A vote of confidence was unanimously recorded. DUNBDIN, May 29. Mr Macandrew addressed his constituents at Port Chalmers, this evening and received an unanimous vote of confidence. He deplored the centralism which existed aud believed no form of local government could, bo satisfactory under that system. He still thought something might come of his motion for the crof ters, and he advocated that the same facility proposed for them should be givon 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 tho end. of tho presont session to seek ro-election, owing to the hours which Parliament eat. 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 be worked in connection with the Land Transfer Department.