WELLINGTON.

Evening Star, Issue 3914, 9 September 1875, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

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(From our own Co respondent.)

. , , September 9. A telegraph static nis to be erected at Have--0 rr* , °^ lce dbea ,t the railway station. If they see a, cha nee of carrying it through, Government intend to introduce an Amended Adulteration of Fc od Bill this session. On Tuesday n; ,ght Mr Stout moved his amendment in a a reiy vigorous speech, but all the old ground w as travelled over again. He attacked Messrs Reynolds, Mervyn, Shepherd, and Pyke as vot mg for the Bill because it was unlikely they would be again returned. Bach of those members rose in turn ho answer the member for ■ Caversham. Mr Shepherd informed the H .ouse that he rcpiesented the opinion of nin a teen-twentieths of his constituents m this rar ,tter, and taunted Mr Stout with having won hj is seat by the skin of his teeth. As a representative really of eleven people he should not, tlr row dirt at others who had represented distrii jts for several years. Had such observations come from the member for Tuapeka he wou Id have treated them with contempt, but t bat the member for Caversham should have used such vulgar claptrap he deeply regre iked, and by using it that member hail greatly fallen in Ids estimation.—(l.uuul cheers.) He ne xt turned upon ilr I rnwn, " uom he desr-ribei'l ns a scout of the Jpposil! .on, and charged with diametrically opposing tie wishes of his coiislLtuents. After describing i\ lr Wood as a politic,weathercock, he went to say of Mr Macandrc w that he liad done hioie bhan any man to bring the affairs of the ( olony into an advanced sU.te of rottenness, because he would do anything to secure the land fund o'l Otago. The land fund had been sacrificed to lavish money tin swttled dis tricts ; sales of ’land had been pledged, for three years 7.n, advance.

Mr Mervyn, more angry still, hurled back the UDiinuatioiis of the member for Caversham, who Lie said had been guilty of a gross piece of impertinence. Being called upon to withdraw the expression, ho did so, content fug himself with saying that it was very wrong for that member to accuse another of misrepr-psenting theopmions of his constituents. Mr Reynolds gave an emphatic dema d to the member for Caversham’s assertion that .lie (Mr Reynolds) had pledged himself, at the t time of meeting his constituents, that he would rot be a party to abolishing the Middle Island ProiXrkl k ‘T et . in f’ lud he been usked Vinci s? nr 9 to Polish the Prohave saffi » NV “V Canterbmy, he would Middle T,io„ r i but , wheu be saw the Middle Island Provinces themselves wished ' to be abohshed-that there was such a stro B" inhabSanta S H ireCt T? n a - mon “ tlie electors ai id inhabitants of those Provinces, the Oovermnen t had no alternative but to include those Pro • v ncea He was not disposed to let Otago and Canterbury be kept separate from the rest of theCo- ony It was a matter of expediency He had had good reasons for changing his mind’ and he was perfectly certain that when he™ent before his constituents again he would receive as much as. or possibly more credit than the member for Caversham when he met his bir George Grey followed in one of his charaotenstm speeches, abounding in more purely distilled buakura” than he has hitherto

used. Starting with the extraordinary theory that the effect of the measures was to bring about a disruption of the Empire, he repeated the stock arguments about Constitutional wrongs, and the wicked course of action the Government were taking, in preventing which those imbued with religious faith were determined to act at all risks and hazards. He called upon Ministers to recollect what the member for Onebnnga bad done in giving up emoluments and position rather than sacrifice his principles, and had retired to a cottage on the sea shore, where he (Sir G. Grey) had admired his greatness, ashcsaid,livingin contented happiness and feeling that he had done his duty. This panegyric was too much even for (Ministers, and one of the occupants of the Treasury bench had the temerity to laugh, whereat Sir George waxed wroth and shrieked out “Shame upon him,” and the Opposition cheered most heartily. He then compared the Colonial Treasurer very laborcdly to a market woman who had carried her eggs from market town to market town first to Christchurch, where the people had not time to consider their utter worthlessness, yet only a few were taken up there ; then to Wellington, but there the people knew too well the character of his goods and would have nothing to do with them; he then carried them to Auckland, with the result that they were kicked out of market. No one would touch them. They were next hawked off to Dunedin, but the member for Port Chalmers had so exposed the nature of their wares that there was no chance of them selling ; and the member for Caversliam had torn the Treasurer’s Bills to shreds and tatters and left the Treasurer almost naked.

The battle commences in earnest to-day. Lobby rumors say the Government will propose that the Housa should sit in permanence till tho Abolition Bill is through. Both sides arc divided into watches. 4.d p.m. Government have just announced that Sir ,T. Vogel leaves for the Colony at the end of this month.