THE PROGRAMME OF THE COMING SESSION.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2648, 12 August 1871, Page 2

THE PROGRAMME OF THE COMING SESSION.

In an article on the coming scss on, the Auckland Morning Mews, on what authority it does not state, says : But our contemporaries (the Southern Cross and New Zealand J Herald) insisted upon our members becoming delegates—their delegates to aid and abet in perpetrating the half-dozen or so of jobs which are whispered about already, and the far larger job by the Colonial Government, in furtherance of which it is expected that the Auckland members will consent to any distribution of the Immigration and Public Works Loan that may be proposed. Against the projected scheme of distribution we desbeto warn the Auckland representatives; and to be forewarned is to be forearmed We under* stand that it is in contemplation to leave Auckland pretty well out in the cold, giving the lion’s share to the Middle Island, We'» lin.ton, Taranaki, and Hawke’s Bay. In ■he first place, it is proposed to buy laud, — waste lauds of the Crown, the property of the colony,—from the provinces of Otago uid Canterbury, for the purpose of settlement, when the Government should reserve chose lauds for colonial purposes, and might do so any moment. Next, we understand, that it is contemplated by the Government to purchase the railways from the provinces which already possess them, paying the price out of the loan, when, in fact, these railways have been made partly by borrowed moneys, for the payment of which the revenues of the colony are pledged and partly by the land revenue, which is the proceeds of the sale of the colonial estate, (iy this me ins, large sums of money will be Handed to the Canterbury and Otago settlers for loc d distribution, and the squatters, who were so keen in support of Mr Vogel’s scheme will receivetbe compensation they required out of the borrowed money. In this way, the lands of the Middle Island willhave been practically three times sold by the fortunate settlers, — once to the present owners, once to the colony under the Consolidated Loan Act, and once again to the colony under the Public Works and Immigration Act. We'liugton, for the support of its Superintendent and beam, is to have Mr Fitzlierbert’a programme carried out. Hawke’s Bay will Pave its Seventy Mile Bush, paid for, opened by roads, and settled by immigrants introduce I at the public cost. Taranaki is to have its railways and roads, and other valuable concessions ; but Auckland, as we said, is to be left out in the cold.