PARLIAMENT.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 8, 3 July 1890, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF BBPRESENTATiyEa. I per tooted press association. J' '■ WKtiiNeTON, July 1. In the House this afternoon Mr Ballance gave notice to move on goings into Committed of Supply; his noconfidence motion the clauses of which we published in our last issuer. ' The Government accepted Mr Ballance's motion as one of want-of-confi-denoe, and the House adjourned till 7.30, when 1 the financial debate will be proceeded with. July 2. ~ The House resumed at 7.30, % nd went into Committee of Supply^ ' iL J ., Mr Ballance said chat if the amendment of which he had given should be carried, nobody expected the Ministers on the Benches would leare them. \ Mr Ballance quotedfpomt figures to prore that there waft H* £45,000 de^c^nisgg^Js^lift^TOii^rt^^ venue* for the past two years byffEV Premier's own showing, and taking: -" all the item's fairly into consideipfipav he (Mr Ballance) made a netdefioiencyof £18,639. The administration of the Land Department and the l 'Sorrowing proposals of the Government came in for -severe criticism. As to the Property- tax, he asserted that the Government should have made progress towards changing the incidence of taxation. The Government had . not the slightest idea of land-settle-ment, and they were promoting: dummvism instead of stopping it.-He> thought that the remedy for the present state of things was an immediate* dissolution, as twenty-one members*, were now sitting in the House whohad no right; to sit there. Mr G. F. Richardson pointed out that the present Government had effected a paving of nearly L 300.000. He disputed; Mr Balance's figures as to the deficiency, and showed that in any case there would be a surplus of L 6,000 according to Mr Ballance'» . own figures. As to the land settlement he desired to -show that largeareas were in the market, and therewas no occasion for anybody to leavethe country because they could not get land. Dummyisin did not exist to anything like the extent complained of. Mr Reevea (St. Albans) referring to> -land administration, said they had three distinct systems of land selling in Canterbury, and each system was worse than the other. The result wa» that the province which should be on* of the most flourishing districts mV the colony was now one of the most depressed and stagnant.v.^^ . Mr Kerr moved the adjournment of the debate. V The House rose at 11.45. •"' July 2. The House met at 2.30 p.m. ' Mr Kerr resumed the debate on th» Financial Statement. In the course* of hisj:emark», he blamed the Goternment for the, stagnation that existed in Nelson, that province never having participated in the borrowed money. ; Mr Hobbs questioned whether Mr Ballance, if he carried his motion, would be able to carry out its terms. The Opposition did not want to carry the motion, and it was only mov.ed to> harden up their supporters, and to give a cry to go to>>tbe country- with. The motion that the House go into Committee of {Supply was then put and carried by 3S to 32, Mr Ballance's amemiment being lost. Mr Bryce said that Mr Baliance's amendment had placed him. in con- -_ siderable difficulty, as he had intended and still intended, to criticise th» financial plioy of the Government but he thought it bis duty to oppose any want of confidence motion brought forward by Mr^Ua^ej^.^^^^^^ Mr Hutchison 1 pointed but thai tiiS^ present Ministry, although they had a majority in the House, had not a majority outside, and that they would be condemned at ther hustings, , for their illegal actitta aild adminiPrfratlr>T» : " .: Thl9 Hot,. WM4 "> ; *vr ■. F .-,.,- uJ