ALMOST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.
"In fact, Sir, as I heard a men ber of the other House say ou Tuesday evening,; the \fi-flio^
E— ■—«'"■«— ii»ir_)--*-a-ia--»_— jig '■ ■** ■ ***■— a— -Baa— _n_i |n •_ cost to the colony at which these native institu. tions are to be worked, is almost too good to be true" Such was the conclusion of that portionof Mr. Sewell's speech yesterday, in the Legis - lative Council, which related to native matters In alluding to the statements that had been given to the public, by s»me portions of the press, of the costliness of the system proposed* he showed how far from correct such statements j were. In round numbers the amount was
.£50,000 per year, — uot perhaps too great a sum /or the government of so large a part of the population out of a levenue of about £420,000 even if tbe colony bad to bear it all ; but as His Excellency bad guaranteed one balf of it, and as tbe remaining £25,000 really covered the objects for which some £17,000 had heretofore been specially voted, the actual increased annual expense was not more than from five to six thousand pouuds.
The speeches in the Legislative Council yesterday were most interesting, particularly those of Judge Arney and Mr. Sewell, for which we refer to our resume of yesterday's Assembly.
ALMOST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.
Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1742, 19 July 1862, Page 2
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