COMPENSATION TO TARANAKI.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1760, 30 August 1862, Page 2

COMPENSATION TO TARANAKI.

LAST,nigbt the House was engaged in tbe consideration of the following motion by Mr. J. C. Richmond, relative to tbe proposition for making compensation in ful> (£200,000) to tbe Taranaki settlers, contained in the recent petition of the Provincial Council of Taranaki, presented by Capt. Atkinson some teg (lays ago. That tbis House will consider, with a strong desire to concur in them, any propositions tbat. His Excellency, with or through his Advisers, may submit to it for relieving the settlers, of Taranaki from their losses of property suffered during tbe late insurrection, for replacing tbat settlervenl on a secure and permanent basis, and for assisting such of (he inhabitants as. may not choose fuither to await the issue of His Excellency's policy with regard to that* Province, to remove and settle ie other parts > of the Colony." . , . : ' Tbe motion was negatived, as pledging the'" House to support His Excellency in some mat*,, ters which, to a great degree, are entirely out of their control. Mr. Fitzgerald moved, and the House carried without a division, a resolu* ; tion which will assure the Taranaki settlers* tbat there is every disposition to do for them all that can possibly be done. Tbe resolution : is as follows : — " That whilst this Committee protests in tho . strongest terms against the liability of the colony for the losses suffered by the Taranaki settlers in the late war, on the ground that the colonists were in no way responsible for that war, and that the greater part of those losses were incurred in . consequence of the want of success of the military operations over which the settlers had no control. This Committee recommends that the House should entertain with favor a proposal to advance the sum required for the liquidation of those losses out of the Colonial Treasury pending a con- , sideration of the proposed claim by tbe Imperial Government, and this Committee recommends that it be referred to a Select Committee to enquire into the amount of compensation claimed and the mode in which it may be desirable to charge the same temporarily on the public resources of the colony. The* House adjourned immediately afterwards (eleven o'clock), reserving the further consideration of the Native Lands Bill to next sitting day. In the list published in our last of the division on the second reading of-tbat Bill, we omitted tbe pairs — for tbe Bill, Henderson and O'Neill ; against it, Dick and Fox.