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PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

(From our special correspondent.) Wellington, Thurs lay. 8 p.*u. There was w-:rm work over the Wellington Land_ Payments Bill last night. On the committal of the Bill; Vogel wiiggested that there should be a limit on the quantity of land the Government are to take in payment for public works in any one year. Bunny asked why the same thing had not been done in the cbso of.Marlborough, whose Bill passed without objection the other day. Vogel replied that he had invited Bunny himself to name a reasonable limit. He did not want the public works constructed at such a sacrifice as evidently would be done under the Bill.

This brought a hornet'.-* nost around Vo»el. Member after member for Wellington got up and protested against favoritism. Pearce commented on the extraordinary difference in treatment of the Pro>uioes by the Premier.

Vogel replied that th>) cases of Taranaki and Wellington were not analagous. He denied any intention of dealing unfairly with any Province, and would be sorry if his remarks on Tuesday had led to such impressions. But he felt no sorrow at having stated to the House his opinions on that subject. Fitzherbert said that the charges made by the Premier against Wellington were repugnant to facts and truth, as he well knew. The Premier was endeavoring to make fish of one and flesh of another Province, and yet prided himself before the House and country as holding the Bcales equally between the Provinces. He told Vogel to his face that the reason why the Taranaki Bill passed without objection was because the votes of that Province were safe while those of Wellington were not in his favor, and he (Fitzherbert) was proud to think so. Why should Wellington be persecuted and sat upon ? Vogel retorted that if Fitzherbert had been in his place on Tuesday he would have said more of him—perhaps what would have been more distasteful to him. The Marlborough Bill escaped the attention of the Government because it had been submitted to the Waste Lamls Committee, and in such cases the Government rarely interfered. This Bill came up separately; hence the discovery. Would intercept the Marlborough Bill before it passed, and propose a similar amendment. As to the insinuations that the Government desired to secure the Taranaki votes, he treated such imputations with the scorn and contempt they deserved. If the Government had desired to purchase votes it need not have travelled very far. Certain votes, it was notorious, had been in the market on very low terms. Fitzherbert's career was changes from one side to the other. There was no necessity for the Government going to one of the smallest Provinces to purchase popularity. Fitzherbert was much better versed in such subjects than he. Certain men were not amenable to the charge of bad taste, because they had dwelt in a certain groove so long they were unable to see in the same light as others. Never had a Government less necessity for purchasing votes than the present, and never was the House less disposed to allow anything of the kind. If it was attempted to purchase -one the Government would probably lose 'three. Insanity was the characteristic of Fitzherbertingenuity.

Fitzherbert charged Vogel with making a coarse personal attack. He ridiculed the idea of, Vogel preaching pradencj, aud wound up a writhing speech by pointing to Vogel, and saying, " I venture to predict that your schemes will come to a speedier failure than you imagine, and no one knows better than you that they are hurrying the Colony to ruin." There whs not a ti' tie of truth in Vogcl's Financial Statement regarding Wellington.

Vogel called on the House to judge between bim and Fitzherbert. He certainly hud not been in public so long as Fitzherbert, but could safely apimal to the House to say whether he had ever made any statement with the intention or desire to deceive, but only such as he believed to be true Members reading correspondence on the table, vxA the ingenious answers of Fitzherbert iu regard to the Provincial Auditorship of Wellington, could judge between them. Fitzherbert said Vogel in calmer moments ought to be ashamed of that correspondence. He for the third time denied any truth in the Premier's fig rea regarding Wellington, or the deductions sought to be drawn from them. He was taunted to account for his attention and support to the Marlborough Bill. Fitzherbert said that votes divided came under the category of c*sea in which it was not politic to give offence..

Luckie wanted to read the Judge's opinion on the Wellington Auditorship, but the House was evidently sick of personalities and reported progress. 1 The Wellington party will insist on the bill as it stands, and promise a fierce fight. Vogel U blamed for losing his temper, but he had great provocation. The ■' Tines' this morning says if the question were reduced to one between Fitzherbert or Vogel the answer of the electors would be unanimous almost to a man. Fitzherbert Bbould take warning. Vogel is quite aware of

two facts—that he has a majority now, and that majorities sometimes give in a remark' able manner, for no apparent reason. He could scent the battle from afar, and will not postpone the conflict or decline his duty, which, through disastrous chance, might not another time be so able to be fulfilled. Gillies and M'Lean had minor passages of arms over the A lckland Land Bill—the former charging him with recently squandering money. ° The Otago Land Act and the University Bill are pissed. Th<* Highway B -ards Amendment and the Registration of Kirlhs Amendment Bills are discharged. The Otago caucus did nothing dcfioiteljr. There i • » diversity of opinion as to the sntenitions of the Government. MaeandTrsw urges' that, if the proposition is carried, it ultimately means the absorption of the Middle Island land fund for Colonial purposes. Others argue that the Government will not disturb it. The members have agreed t& oppose- asy fie*gislatiom likely to- afieet. the Jaai'ls. The breach of privilege question »likely to" end h* a complete fiasco.-j^ Luckie tells the CommUEee that he overheard members of Committee on the passages of the House who were telling the whole ■circumstance as telegraphed, and he wrote ft down as they spoke. Was very outspoken before the Committee, and went the length of lecturing them on the impolicy of the whole proceedings. , < Present at the Otago caucus—Maijandrew, Bradshaw, Gillies. Murray, Tolmie, Mervyn, Cuthbertson. Thonr.oon, Reid, M'Glashau, Brown, Steward, and Shepherd. Several resolutions were read, but none were agreed to, b.->e-ni*e no nne knr-w what th" Government, intended to propose. In the meantime the meeting adjourned in order to give the Government further intimation of their determination to oppose the land fund of the Provinces being taken for any purpose, as already teletraphed. The Goldfields Committee have strongly recommended the adoption of Shepherd's Bill re legalising the pollution of rivers.

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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 283, 7 August 1874, Page 3

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PARLIAMENTARY NEWS. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 283, 7 August 1874, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 283, 7 August 1874, Page 3

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