PARLIAMENTARY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 391, 8 September 1876, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

THE MINISTBBIAL STATEMENT. The Hon. the Premier, on the Honse meeting on Monday last, said he must make the avowal that Abolition would be carried out, and that Provincialism in any form would not be resuscitated. It would be the duty and the care of the Government to see that the transition from the old to the new should cause as little friction as possible. With that object the Government had already taken steps, but nothing would be more effectual than the coi'dial co-operation with the existing Provincial Governments. Upon the question of the Land Fund and Separation, the House would expect a distinct avowal. He wished to make it as distinct aa possibleThe House has this session decided the ques" tion, and the Government legally accept the decision, whatever may be the opinion of individual members thereof. With regard to Loans and Public Works they proposed to ask Authority to raise two millions, but 6nly one million this session, the chief portion of which would be required to meet Provincial liabilities. They deemed it necessary that tha main trunk lines of the Colony should be carried on continuously, brit not at such a rapid rate as heretofore. --If the House determined to continue the system of public works it would be necessary to give the .Government power to raise the money. To slop public works at the present would bejgreat disaster. Regarding Immigration, the Government proposed to continue immigration, and especially to encourage the nominated system, in the hope that in no long time the nominated immigration, which is now increasing very fast, would meet all the requirements of the Colony. Touching the financial arrangements of Abolition, he said new arrangements would be made regarding hospitals and museums. The question of Education would be considered next session, in the shape of some general measure for the whole Colony. The Counties Bill was also to be modified, by which it would be left to each county, after being mapped out, to decide whether they should avail themselves of the new counties or make use of the system of road boards, and so make the county councils merely distributive bodies. That was the policy ho had to srbmit, and if it met the approval of the House he made no doubt but business could be got through in a month.