PICKINGS FROM HANSARD.

Evening Star, Issue 2971, 27 August 1872, Page 4

PI CKINGS FROM HANSARD.

WHY MR FOX VISITED THE WEST COAST. lii the debate on Mr Curtis’s Provincial Boundaries resolution, the Premier is ro ported to have said He might be permitted to say that the real object of his visit to the West Coast was not, as had been stated by the hem. member for Parnell, to sketch the glaciers it was this : that the members of the Government—and it applied to previous Governments as well—had always been in a state of mystification in regard to affairs affecting that part of the Colony. They were continually being charged by members from the vV cst Coast with not understanding the position of matters, and he determined that he would make himself acquainted -with the necessities and requirements of the various districts by personal inspection. Having done so, he was ashamed now to think how great his ignorance w T as in reference to that part of the Colony. Reference had been made to the agitation on the West Coast, and to his having fomented strife in tbp distiict; but from what he saw when he anived there it was too true that it needed no one to go there for the purpose of encouraging a feeling of the kind. There was enough discontent and cause for it in the locality ! it needed no interference from without.