GOLDFIELD MEMBERS' UTTERANCES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 218, 2 May 1873, Page 5

GOLDFIELD MEMBERS' UTTERANCES.

. Ml*. Halleustein met Iris Arrow constituency'on Saturday evening. There was a full meeting. Lie was closely questioned ou varjous. points, especially vvitli reference to tiie bridge a(. Kawarau Falls, "and the commonage question. His answers were not considered satisfactory, and a unanimous vote of want of confidence was passed. Mr. ifallensteiii visited the Queenstown district throughout, and was received genei*ally well. Votes of confidence resulted. He had to explain matters as to his past votes. He stated lie believed the inquiry' instituted into the mystery of the Vogel Grovernmerit by Mr. Stafford had led to confidence, as was instanced by Mr. Stafford's recent purchases. The Ministry was indefinitely formed. He could promise it no support until its surrouudings were fixed. He believed Mr. Vogel had the good of the Colony at large at % heart, and his zeal was the result. Mr. Vogel resembled Warren Hastings in his career, being-ready to sacrifice districts and men for the general good. These answers were the result of questions. At Arrowtown a vote against Mr. Hallenstein was. carried. He said that selfish aiid local views were at work there otherwise the vote would have been different.

Mr. T. L. Shepherd met the electors of the Dunsfcan at. Drybread on Saturday las)-. He was well received. He- reviewed the past session, and sbai.ed that the system of deferred payments for laud, which he was the first to advocate in. the Provincial Council, was now la\yi- and would, he believed, if properly administered, be a complete success. He would endeavor to increase the quantity of land to he thrown open annually from 30,000 acres to 100,000 acres, if required, and the area to be taken up by any one selector to be increased from 200 to 300 acres—that being the quantity agreed to by the Provincial Council and the House of Representatives, bat reduced by the Legislative Council He said it was amusing to notice some of the members of the goldfields attacking Mr. B.eid for . selling 1.-jrge blocks of land, while they had for two consecutive sessions of the - Council supported him in that policy—a policy that lie had always strongly opposed. On a division agaiust the sale of large- blocks he stood almost alone, having-only Messrs Green and Holmes as companions, all {.lie other members either supporting Mr. Reid by voting with him, or absenting themselves: the fact being that, members \vere ready to bleed an outlying district to spend the proceeds in the more thickly populated districts where they had no land to sell. Mr. Shepherd explained the chief features of the new Consolidated Goldfields Bill, prepared by Messrs Haggitt, Mouat, and himself, which met with marks-of strong approval.. He stated that the Bill would be shortly circulated, and would doubtless be introduced by | the Ministry early in the session. The following resolution was unanimously carried:—"That this meeting is of opinion that Mr. ! T. L. Shepherd has ably represented the district, and expresses its entire confidence in him as member for the Dunstan in the House of Representatives and Provincial Council."— 'Star.'