PARLIAMENTARY.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1018, 29 September 1877, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

Last Night's Proceedings, Wellington, September 29. The debate on the "Waka Maori" was kept up till 12.25 a.m. Mr Hamlin condemned the " Waka" as a miserable rag, and that means were taken to get up an agitation in its favor. Mr Morris said the East Coast Natives wanted the paper continued. Mr Pykc said the Ministry defied the House, and a reconstruction should take place. Mr Carrington considered Ministers acted rightly. Mr Rolleston supported the motion. Their own self respect ought to make the Governrnent retire. Mr Wason opposed the motion. Mr Q-isborne said what the Government did in defiance of the House reflected badly upon the audit system. Mr Stafford spoke at considerable length in defence of the Government and against the motion. He denied the charge of having deserted his party in 1873, and claimed the present Ministry as really belonging to his party, and composed of his old colleagues and political allies. He did not think the Opposition contained the elements of an abiding party. The Government acted rightly regarding the " Waka Maori." During twenty years seventeen successive Ministers felt it necessary to have a Maori paper. Mr Stout supported the motion. Hon. Geo. McLean moved the adjournment of the debate. The alterations made by the Legislative Council in the Canterbury Rivers Act, were altering the title to the Disqualification Act, and making the 2nd clause read, "no member of any River Board shall be disqualified from being a member of the General Assembly, xmlcss, after passing of this Act, such member shall receive any payment for his services, or for travelling expenses, as member of such Board."