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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 106, 13 April 1863, Page 2

Report of committee on Wellington Debt : The Committee would recommend the passing of an Act to the same effect as the Wellington Loan Adjustment Act, with a provision that in the event of the Commissioners not arriving at a conclusion and agreeing therein before the next meeting of the General Assembly, it shall be left to His Excellency the Governor to appoint a Commissioner to hear and decide the question. The Committee would therefore recommend than an offer to the effect contained in the foregoing resolution be made to the Wellington government, it being at the same time pointed out that the conference of Commissioners as provided in the Wellington Act would in our opinion in all probability be found inefficient for the object desired, viz., the final settlement of the question. Your Committee would further recommend that in the event of the offer of settlement contained in the above resolution not being accepted by the Wellington government, the representatives of this province in the House of Representatives should be instructed that it is the opinion of the Council that the course which it is most desirable they should advocate should be that laid down in the above resolution, which would, the Council believes insure the early settlement of this question by a disinterested and impartial tribunal. That the Superintendent be requested to acquaint llis Excellency’s Government with the terms of the Council’s report upon the question, and to beg that any co-operation in their power may be exerted to provide for a settlement in the manner therein proposed.