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Evening Star, Issue 3810, 11 May 1875, Page 2

It is not unlikely that when the Council takes up the. Government proposals to-day for the opening #f lands as Hundreds and deferred payment blocks, the proceedings may be a httle more animated than has been the case as yet this session. In point of fact, with the exception that a few technical Bills have been cleared off—Bills that have already the Council, but through some official blunder, it is said, have had to be re-passed—nothing has been done Until the Government proposals were brought down the Council was not to be blamed for maotion. Theoretical propositions might have been thrown out by private members and debated to all hours of the morning, but the practical result wouH . have been the Btt “s—? othil >g would have been done. The .political waters, which . *o eutwdrd eyes_appear so. calm, might be more troubled than is apparent £.so, the -land proposals, ;to be followed immediately by t&e estimates, will atrip off the false surface. It is well known that a section of the House is very dissatisfied with ttte land administration during the recess but whether the leaders of that section will see their way to make use, for their own 22 f °i th ® V 67 ctaotio el®**w>ks supposed to be opposed to the present vernment, is at present doubtful. Southlard mmbers not without a show of reason, complain that . the landed estate of the South

has been sacrificed un n'y, while a fair return iora&eand works i ;.is not been giv n. Goldfield|jfo,embeFß are V©ady for anything that may torn uft-not being .ill content that their' representative should ho’d the anomalous.positipndf office Salary with* empower) #hile it-: must be Emitted ti.at initiated* last year.-Vofit Cromwell of Government, ; has proved' nnsatisfaoif net ridiculous. A iiirge majority of" the Oqunoil Will;, be founds to support ; Ks® in any liberal’ measures he an equally large object to his companions. The* question asked in joke at . the commenoement of the session—Which two Are to go out this time ?—is likely to be ask* 4 in earnest. The merits of the Provincial Secretary, be they as great as his friends think them to h*i unless aided practically by something, like. Similar material in his colleagues, are not sufficient for the satisfactory superintendence of the public business. The present state of works of magnitade throughout the Province and the-rnmored disorganisation in the Engineer's department, prove that, something is radically wrong. The debates this week ehpn d v throw more upon the doubtful attitude, of parties in the.Council, There are existing exactly the same element* of discord as ever there were. How'and when they may crop up remains to be seen.