DISCUSSION ON NATIVE POLICY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 57, 31 July 1862, Page 3

DISCUSSION ON NATIVE POLICY.

(From the Wellington Independent, July 19). The Native question will be fairly before the House next week. The following resolutions, introducing the budget, were to have been brought forward on Tuesday, but are postponed to a later day. 1. That this Committee will make the necessaryprovision for defraying the cost of the system of Civil Government now in operation for the Native Inhabitants of New Zealand, to an amount not exceeding £50,000 per annum, for a period not exceeding five years ; provided no material reduction is made in the Military force now in the colony during the period. 2. That the expenditure on account of the Civil Government of the Natives, after deducting the Imperial contribution thereto, should be charged upon the ordinary revenue of the Colony. 3. That it is advisable the Executive Government of the colony should be empowered to raise a loan not exceeding £loo,ooo’ secured upon the General revenue of the colony, for the purpose of constructing roads in the mixed and Native districts of the Northern Island of New Zealand. The interest and sinking fund on such sums as may from time be expended on account of the said loan to be charged locally and proportionately on the revenues of the provinces in which such expenditure shall take place. On Wednesday Major Richardson is to move the two following important resolutions, the discussion on which will be looked forward to with interest. 1. That this House should be informed, so far as may be consistent with any present or prospective Military arrangements, what measures are proposed to be adopted towards the Taranaki and Ngatiruanui tribes with reference to the murder of unarmed British European Subjects, and also with reference to the destruction of the homesteads and plunder of the property of the inhabitants of the Province of New Plymouth. 2. That this House should be informed, so far as may be consistent with any present or prospective Military arrangements, what measures are proposed to be adopted towards enabling the owners of property in the Tataraimaka Block in the Province of New Plymouth to return to their homos from which they arc still debarred bv the unsatisfactory nature of the relations existing between the Government and her Majesty’s Native subjects residing southward of that Province.