POLITICAL NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3740, 11 July 1883, Page 3

POLITICAL NEWS.

[by telegraph.]

[FROM OUR OAVN CORRESPONDENT.] ■ AA r ELLiNQTON, This day. Tho immigration returns were presented to the House yesterday afternoon. Thero is nothing very startling in them. The need of bettor surgeons is strongly insisted on, and the desirability of having qualified matrons. Attention is drawn to the fact that competent managers for cheese factories are greatly needed, ns well as tho desirability of inducing small farmers to emigrate kere to take up land under the leasing clause of the Land Act of last session. During the last fiftcon months 3205 immigrants have been introduced, of whom 100 were for Hawke's Bay. I have been a man of peace from my . youth upwards, probably owing to the limited extent of my inches, but I confess ihat the Native Land Company's Bill being brought up once more raised my dander. AVcll all I shall say about it on this occasion is that ono cannot but admire the generalship with which it is managed. But I give my deliberate opinion tbe bill is doomed; it will never pass, at least not till Mr Montgomery abolishes the Central Government, and has managed to get in its place tho scheme which he so labored to explain last night. It appears he can manage everything- except Hawke's Bay. That was tin only difficulty he saw, though ; an explanation was demanded as to what -was to become of Poverty Bay. AVhilo tho Hawke's Bay districts had very largo exports, and the people have got enormous resources, ho should bosorry to constrain them |o dc>. what, they did not wish to do—join any district with which they had no comr munity of interest—whatever that may x mean as applied to different parts of Now Zealand—l confess -myself ignorant of, though, by the number of times Mr Montgomery rolled it out, it must mean something formidable. His scheme I forwarded somo time ago. Its object was to make the Middle Island into one province, and, as the Major afterwards said, Hokitika, to prevent trouble, should be the capital. The speaking was very poor, and tho debate lacked though it promises to bo protracted. Each speaker tried to go further back in the past than the one who preceded him. The past, with all its follies, had better bo left to itself, and certainly it was not the subject unclor discussion. AVhile tho Major was lecturing on the " waste of tima caused by discussing such subjects as the admission of lawyers to the Bar who aro not capable of passing their examinations, the abolition of the Upper Houso"-here he paused, apparently for another clincher at Sir George Grey, but before "ho could give utterance to it there came 'tho Vresponso-" and National Insurance." This fetched the House the hit coming promptly and at the right time. The most important notice for to-day is that in which it is asserted that the time has now arrived when the natives should be prohibited from selling land to individuals. P Sir George Grey has also given notice i Of motion Which will bo considered tantamount to another no-confidence one. The Committee on Bills has reported that the Now Zealand Native Land Company s JJill is tt private bill.