WELLINGTON.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1665, 19 June 1875, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

(From our own Correspondent.) This day. The "Hansard" Proposal. The Times yesterday morning has a leader ridiculing the idea of the Queensland Parliament establishing a self supporting Hansard, and predicting its utter failure. The writer who speaks as if he knew all about what he was writing of, strongly urges that the Government should abolish the "Hansard" and print the reports in the Times, and so secure general circulation. The Post rejoins this evening a3 follows : " For an example of barefacsd audacity commend us to the proposal put farward in the leading article of the New Zealand Times this morning. In plain words it is this : - " Let the Government give up printing "Hansard," and subsidise the Times to print reports prepared by reporters paid by the colony. We know that the Government does strage things, but it will probably scarcely venture on the perpetration of a disgraceful job of this kind, even to buy the support of the New Zealand Times. The ideaof getting a subsidy of this kind has long been a favorite one with certiin persons connected with the Times • but Parliament would certainly never sanction such a thing