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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 499, 25 June 1880, Page 2

Ik the Legislative Council on Wednesday laßt, that ridiculous emanation of Sir George Grey, the Moorhouso Medal Bill was knocked on the head. In the Lower House there was a discussion on the Civil Service Commission. ,Mr Macandrew asked if the Government would lay the evidence taken by the Commission on the table. < The Hon Mr Oliver replied that the evidence was not in the hands of the Ministry. He did not think that the Commissioner of the South Island railways should be discharged on the strength of what had been stated by the Commissioners, The Hon the Premier believed that the evidence would'be laid on the table, and that the .Government and the country were under a great obligation to the' Commissioners for the way in which they had done their work. A somewhat savage attack was made by the Opposition on. the report, but the discussion was a very irregular one, which led to nothing. The no-confidence debate was continued by some of the smaller fry »f the House. Mr Turnbull, however, was not far wrong when he declared that the ohildren of the Colony were nursed in a Government cradle, eduoated at the Government expense, ,at a Government school, supported and festered, in a Government office, and buried in & Government coffin, and that the sooner such a luxurious condition of things was done away with the better.