Evening Sitting.

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Evening Sitting.

The House resumed at 7.30 p red Mr Hubsthottse continued th st j Eeferring to Mr Wood, he adm 80. brilliant talents, but said that unstable conduct, he had drag; jJfUJ stitutional governmentthrought 1 Instead of the fall which had tai j in wages being an indication . | nation, he thought they would ■qj^J fall lower before many industrMgjJ be profitably established. He mfr i supported the Government P ro W»mri supplying a concrete form ■S^ government. At the same tii^Lf-j was, perhaps, too much govmfajft He did not think both Counties aEp] Boards were required, and oi.tiK^ preferred the Eoad Boards. WLo' simpler scheme for opening K^i country were proposed he woKg jj port it, but in the meantime Jm,^ vote with the Government. W & really wanted was the mazing funds, with a minimum of offing penditure. He advocated re Pever: Triennial Parliaments Bill. Maci Mr Gisboene reviewed the hm*^ local.government in New ZealaKl, its settlement. The ProvintieKgj' have been improved, not &m^u With the proposal to rate Cromjj he agreed, and to some extent S_^ tha£ of rating Native, lands ;BKq totally disagreed with the Sp method of distributing the fEfg means of a paid iio. rd. Exc< the Disqualification Act, such a g| was demoralising to the House. • fended Mr Ormond's action in y the amendment. It was no it tion to a district like tb Coast, languishing for local seli -j ment, to be told that the |3 administration of the Governn '^ been satisfactory. Were the am : M to be rejected they would *& humiliating spectacle of anothmLq passing without anything beiaßUj for even some of those who woßjfa against the amendment would K^ against these measures. tVKj ment might long ago. have ifiSy the Redistribution of Seats BiljKj] waiting for the census returns tj mathematical precision. Th«My| even last session have remedied inequalities existing. HeregreKi^l the late Government had noK^S Xiocal Government Bill in their■ M holes when they went out, so ■JK present Government might M ft J propriated it, as they had all iK^n measures they had passed. ißfe. like to see districts larger tß^ Counties, but smaller than the vinces, with power to the iQQa'i^Kn' each to elect a governing bodjHjL full and exclusive power to dealH^j local matters of legislation or oflt | Such bodies should also haveK* t revenues to appropriate, and e^Kgi trict should settle for itself thoß^j its subordinate bodies, whethH f Boards or otherwise. Bur Mr Wright argued that the fllifi of the Government were not peAili he objected to turning the MinSlsJ and so hurry on a dissolution, Btai another session. Although hße* uot at all object to a second houHne at the same time he did not Sra chance of an improvement onßto sent occupants of the Go^Hed benches, and he should there^lav against the amendment. Be F Mr Moss denied that such »Ba real local government existedMlei colony, or had existed since tb^K i commenced to muddle with Be vinces. Now that public atteißjt aroused, the question would Hbsi allowed to rest until it was^l-B whatever the fate of the preses^Dl< (Left Sitting). Bill