THURSDAY.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 49, 19 June 1880, Page 3

THURSDAY.

THieHon^tiie. Premier moved that ths: ■ Housfgo into ComniitteepfSupplj/ orders Ito 9 being postponed. : ; ; Sir George Gbrey said before the . Speaker ' Jeft* the chair he would more, "That tho financial -proposals of the Government ar*; not a* a whole adapted to promote, tbe. wel- '■ fare of I[ew Zealand." (Applause) Je ' kntw that he had to contend with th,e moneyed classes of the colony. '4 11l «i' e -wiw »n expectant country patching the House that night, and also people in ether lands: He knew.Tth»Tcauße;he w» engaged in was a great one, and aparj; of the Wru|;gle * $6yf'g6\iig on i alVldvei". the/world; agaiiißttlie inoney*s Wrid landed classes. The very " Premier df this oountr.j. wap, to his mind, f 8 some rampire in an Eastern sultry dune, which, whiter sucking -fclia-blood of its Tietims, waved its wings and ereatexl a.sooth- : - ing «iir^ r , (Lal^hter^fe^rhaV gentlexnar^ilVadtold his constituents th*fcjiolj t)iej, b^t the ■ moneyed daises onhfj i?9M^ hays to ' pay this property tix. ft was ■4ike." tHe people who. were juggled into the. biUef that they ..held money inTtheir hands when they had : - .not. . T-hey S^ero, deluded, . ppor souls. ; ' (taus;litep;)^ Six. oe6rge then went over ; fhahy'df^^the argument;* used by him 1 wlien .- .the Financial Sfnt«men l ftwn« delivered. ;He "Baid to the Ministers, it was "a joke tljat ' others' sulfered sp long as theyl themselves did not/ Another great cuvse in connection ; ; with this tax was the disadvantage; it placed ' the New Zealand merchant in \xa against the ' fbreign mVrcHantt.- That wui ovierweightingour people altogether. -Itl would have i 'Veen preferable l that 1 -there ! should havej feWft ft tyt. upon th; necessaries

-of ■'Hfej— rather rthan-Buch- a-tax-ias. . . fc hi3. should be imposed. Another obnoxious feature' of the.fcax was its unfairness, and the truth was the House was legislating for itself. It was holding out a premium for dishonesty. Up to the present time no statesman, in' any British community had ever dared: to impose such a tax j and he would ask them what was the necessity of the tax. It was oh ' account, it would be Md, pl^Tsjtate |x»f their affairs; But why hid, t^e^gWintojthat WtWte ?* Years 'ago the Government side of the House: had" refused those very measures which they now themselves proposed, and is those measures had been passed wo should not have been in^our present position. And who had injured the colony at home in a financial point of view? Why, the Colonial Treasurer biniself. Why, he had stated that he had told the truth and "more than the tr-uth," and whea he found he bad made a mistake he slunk back in: his seat with a vacuous laugh. (Lauchter.) The hrtn. member proceeded to criticise to various portions of the finan-cial-proposals, especially : condemning' the proposals to sweep away subsidies. He condemned in decisive terms the entire Government ; proposals, said he was not sure whether the late' Native' Minister had; not discovejjjed more, abuses than the present one, though he had not blazoned forth his discprerie* to the shame of his officers, held that the Jffttive Minister ought to give -a full statement of native affairs, dnred the Ministry, to ask for T a' dii Plution, and t hoHsb t retrenchment iwould obviate any need fornncreased taxation.^ ..::■; ; ; The Hon the Premier characterised ' the speech of the hon. member, as. weak and contemptible ; in fact, the o id story over again. He .refuted the statements' made therein, and referring to rema rks made .as to reduction of Ministers' salaries, he asked had they forgotten the miserable shim which took place when one strong Government supporter propose!, and another seconded, that t!»e. reductions should not take place, and these very gentlemen were 'shortly afterwards .made .lust ices of the Penes' by. tin incensed Govern menfc. Sip George Grey,- having: drawn a full salary. ; for two years, hurl como down to that House and tabled a mption|for reduction of Minis-, ters.* salaries; That alone was sufficient to show his insincerity.; With regaed to the Tjrpmise to. reduce expenditure by a j hundred thousand pounds, Sir George Grey h»y actually; increased ifc by y that .amount. After touching pn other points of Sir George Grey's speech the Hon. the Premier, said the main question was whether the present Ministry should retain office, ,or whether Sir George Grey. •houldHal^e it with .these followers w ; hp^ had clung to His chariot wheels. A ' '■■■.■-.' -;--•'■;<■■■■■ : • • -Mr Seymour George attacked the Gpver-n^aei\t measures : ot considerable length. - r - ' : _ Mr Moss moved 'the 1 adjournment Of the , debate. ■ ■ •■-•■ =.• .:■'■■ :">'"'. .■'■'■' - ' : '■ ''.] ' Mr McLean wished to explain ;to the House that as chairman of the Unipn:Shipping\Gotnp,%ny he had never in any way, consuV^d the Government on the question 6t the, exemption of New Zealand shipping. The;debate wu, tlxea adjourned, until the following day. _ .