JOTTINGS FROM " HANSARD."

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 523, 19 July 1881, Page 2

JOTTINGS FROM " HANSARD."

MR SPEIGHT OX THIS BOTTLK LICICNSE. I hope the Scotch gentlemen in the House will pardon ir>e for Maying that there seems to be ;i disposition on the part of every Scotchman I have spoken to on this subject to s-iy, " We must have a bottle license." 'What the reason id I do not know. I have been told that which I believe to be a foul calumny—a libel upon the Scotchmen in the country. I have been told that it arises from this fact: that no Scotchman ever shouts or treats any other man, and he desires to purchase his liquor in such a form that he can take it away in a bottle and help himself. IE this id a libel I am not the author of it; it was told to me by a Scotchman. MR DICK IS CUUUL. Then the honorable member for Auckland City East takes me to task on one or two points. In the first place he tells us of some town in Ireland, which was a happy valley evidently, an Eden without the serpj.Tt, where every one was happy and prosperous because there was no drink sold. Well, my honorable friend ought to have stayed there. To have loft a place ho peaceful and happy to come to this country and to enter this arena of strife seems to have bean a bad choice, ftud perhap.-i the best thing ho cu.iKl do would bo to go back again. Mil »AKh!'!S!,l> UN Oii.VUTABLIC AID. Lily imprc.-woii i« tlut. :i ;?;reat deal more oughj. u> {;:■ done iV>.- the poor of New Zealand by the rl'.'.'h '■■;;; i: , . done. It has always struck uic i'::it in iliis cojntry, for iii.-iiio rciii'.dii or other, ni'.f. ( believe, from any 511-wil• on the part o 1 : the wt.-aithy, ■ tho poor .<uv not. dealt with f>o liiioivilly a. i J j th'.'.y ought to bo. ii <sugh( io bo d.0v.0 by i the ridi simply i'or ti<o U>vc of doi:, v - g-od ! works; and what is v.'anted more tb;ui any- '

ihing is an organisation which will admit <jf the rich helping tho roor to the full c xtent of their willingness. I believe Hint, if that organisation wero provided, you would not hear anything of the relief of poverty, but at tho same time poverty would be relieved. MR DX LAUTOUR IS TENDER. I hope I have not spoken with undue hostility to the Government. I know Ministers are inclined to exhibit a great amount of sensitiveness, arising from their weakness, and I hope honorable gentlemen on this side of the House will humour that tenderness, in the interests of the colony. MAJOR HAKIMS IS FORCIBLE, We were not so well looked after when the money was being spent as we are now. I think, when it comes to a poll-lax, it is a miserable way of getting money. I know that in Auckland a poll-lax was tried before ; and if you wmit fo collect it again you wilMiave to use a pole-axe. MR JiUNDON IS CANDID. All these .honorable gentlemen know that a general election is approaching, and they have come here primed to talk to their constituents. lam in a position to speak what I feel and tell the truth, for I have no constituents. My constituents have left me, and another man has jumped my claim. Consequently I am independent of them. MR LUNDON ON FARMING. The tailor or the shoemaker, if he is really industrious, will make steady progress on a farm, and eventually succeed ; but the man who comes out from Home with a great reputation, forgetting that the climate and the circumstances here are different, begins to show the people of New Zealand how they farm in England, and ends in mortgaging his property and getting into difficulties. I believo in putting people on the land and letting them get th<3 natural food of man ; and, if we can nil go and grow iood for ourselves and families, what occasion is there for us to starve? None in the world. DR WALLIS ON THE CHINESE. We are in this position: We derive a largo revenue from the vices of our Christian people, but as those Chinese are mere heathon, and not addicted to our vices, therefore they escape the peculiar form of taxation by which our revenue is so largely contributed. Now, we do not want these people to escape taxation altogether, we want to catoh them somehow, and I desire that these Chinese should bo taxed ; and I agree that it is very reasonable to lovy a poll-tax upon them for that purpose, seeing that we cannot get at them in any other way. As to being demoralized by the Chinese, no one who knows human liiiture, who has been wandering for some fiffy years over tho world as I have been, will for a moment believe that we are ono whit more moral on tho whole than the inhabitants of the Chinese Empire. Therefore there is not much in tho argument that the Chinese would demoralize us. It would require very wicked people indeed to make us much worse than we are.