TUESDAY NIGHT'S DEBATE.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1711, 12 August 1875, Page 2

TUESDAY NIGHT'S DEBATE.

The following telegram on TuesdayV debate came to hand too late for publication yesterday :—"The debate last evening WM; animated. Sir George Grey made a splendid speech, hitting out on all sides. He wis particularly warm on Dr Pollen. Mr Wood spoke well, and claimed that the financial, statement showed an actual deficiency instead of a surplus. Sir Donald McLean spoke weakly, got confused, and evidently left the greater part of his speech undelivered. Mr Pyke spoke on the Government side. Mr Thomson delivered a sound speech for the Opposition. To-night, Murray, Bunny, and Montgomery speak on the Opposition side. It is not known who the Govern-1 ment speakers will be. Fitzberbert and Stafford are fighting shy of each other<u!usual. The Government are determined to f oroe a division at all hazards.

Notes on Last Night's Delate. The speeches last night were decidedly ; better, all being practical.

Deiver, au oeing prauutai. Mr. Montgomeryls was the best; with j great frankness he admitted tbat public opinion in Canterbury favoured Abolition.; .■ He himself was in favour of a chaDge but he disapproved of the bill because of the uncertainty of the endowments, and effects of the bill on out-lying districts where population B is scant appeared to be injurious. Mr. Tribe made a most effective speech on the Government side. He showed con clusiveJy tbat the capitation grant was eves now fully equal to what Mr. Vogel originally promised it should be. Mr. Luckie1 declared his readineßS to sup* port any party that was prepared with » r property and income tax. ~ Mr Gibbs, an out-and-out Abolitionist,, does not see how the bill can be altered to ' meet his views, therefore he will be found voting with the Opposition. What Mr. Travers Thinks. M At a meeting last night, Mr. Travers said . Mr. Vogel's views on the proposed bill were , statesmanlike. Mr. Vogel was desirous that the measure should consolidate the existing local laws and make a change, doing no violence to the constitution. That the.../ people should not feel the change as doing violence to existing institutions and plunging | it into a new system without due prepare a tion.

Stamp Duties Amendments- - . The Government intend exempting mortgages under £500 or £600 from the operation of the new Stamp Act. A strong effort wm be made to exempt building societies.