GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 213, 18 October 1860, Page 3

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Since-our last report of the meetings of this house.,.the following hills have been read a third time- and. to-, the... house., of, Representatives. Ayg.. 20, The Fraudulent Trustees-ML 21, The Married Women’s Property,Protection bill. Sept. 6, The Registration of Deeds Amend--ment bill.. 11, The Conveyancing Ordinance Amendment.hill. 2Jie Pensioner Villages Sale of Reserves Act Amendment act. 13, The iVolsoii . ITesleyan Land Sale

1.7, The Nelson-. Roman Catholic Endowment Aales act. 14, The Laud Registration bill. ,

On the- 30th August a long debate topic place on a motion of Sir 0. Gibbes for the following address to.the Governor, — “ We, the Legislative Council of New Zea-. land, beg to assure your Excellency of our • earnest desire to afford to your Excellency our ■ most cordial suppoit in carrying on the war now unhappily existing in a- portions of-, this-, colony. “ Deploring, as we do, the existence of this s evil, a feeling which we are persuaded is en--tertained by your Exce'lency "'ith equal, strength, we are convinced ymir hxcellencylias been forced into this course l>y a s vies of*, circumstances beyond your Excellency's con- - trol.

We believe that if the spirit of hostility to British supremacy, which now unfortunatelyv appears to exist amongst, a. portion.-, of< the native population, is- not effectually subdued;it will break out again at. various intervals,producing the same disastrous results, as those : which have recently occurred, to. the.lives and; property of our fellow-colonists.* We-therefore trust your. Excellency VilL continue-to carry on,, with unabated,- vigour, all measures that may be necessary to repress the present insurrection, as far a§ possible, to. prevent its-recurrence, and thus to insure theprogressive prosperity of this colony, and of every class of her Majesty’s subjects within.it.”

The motion was carried by. 11,to 3y the noes being Mr. Swainson, Colonel Kenny, and Mr. Crilfillau. .

■ On the 3rd of Sept. Major Richmond hirquired as to the restrictions placed on Colonel Gold; aiul was informed by the AttorneyGeneral, that on the 20tli Colonel Gold had been instructed not to carry the war beyond the boundary of the Waitara; that on the 17tli May he received further instructions, not to attack W. King unless on further provocation. These restrictions were of course withdrawn when W. King attacked the troops on the 24th J uue. He had not been restricted in regard to the southern natives. General Pratt had received authority to act as he pleased. On the 15th Sept, the Lyttelton and Christchurch Railway bill, and on the, 14th Sept, the Flax Patent act, were read a third time and passed. On the 20th Sept. Mr. Crawford presented a petition from the Wellington Provincial Council, praying for an inquiry in order to put. an end to the present conflict between the Council and the Superintendent with reference to the appropriation of revenue. It was received and read.

Mr. Crawford moved, “ that a humble address be presented to his. Excellency the Governor requesting him to cause a rough survey to be made, particularly in the Northern island, of the most eligible lines for railroads to open up the interior of the country to settlement and profitable occupation, thereby; conjointly with the extinguishment of the Native title, to develope the resources of the colony ; to give employment and habits of industry to the Natives, and to give value to the Native reserves.” The hon. member said, that at present three things were to he done—the rebel natives thrashed, the land question settled upou a permanent basis, and the country opened up and employment given to the natives. Each of these objects would be promoted by the introduction of railways. , Sept. 21. In answer to a question put by Major Richmond, the Attorney-(General said, that the Bishop of Wellington was mistaken in his idea that the Native Reserves act of 1856" had narrowed the liberty previouslypossessed by the natives to give their laud for the support of Native clergymen. The Natives were precisely in the same position, in that respect now as before the passing of, that act.