TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 211, 4 September 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

[Per Greville's. Telegram Company.] Wellington, September 4. Wr. Webster and Mr. Calder last night opposed the Government. They said that £100,000 might have been saved on the Brogden contracts, and that a large amount had been wasted in allowing the loans to lie in London, whereas the colony was paying interest to the local banks, which might have been reduced to one per cent., thus, a loss a£ £50,000 had been incurred. Mr. Pearce (Wellington) supported the Government, which, he said, had only been guilty of errors that were perfectly remediable. Mr. Jackson (Waikato) moved as an amendment.That the prosperous condition of the country is such as to render a change of Government undesirable. Mr. Kelly (East Coast) seconded the amendment. . ■ Mr. Hallenstein (Otago) opposed the Government on the ground of mal-administration, and abuse of patronage, and said that the large deposits in the Banks proved that capitalists had no confidence in the resources cf the colony. Mr. Harrison (Grey Valley) supported, the Government, and said that the charges of the Opposition were not made out. They were merely struggling for office. He defended the Press Association, and said that every respectable paper in.the colony had joined it, including those of all shades of opinion. Mr. White, who had condemned it, had, he, said, been Greville's agent until his services were, dispensed with. (Here a scene ensued, Mr. White, who indignantly denied this assertion, being several times called to order. Subsequently he read a letter from Greville's manager showing that he had ceased to be connected with the agency several months before the session commenced.) . " , Mr. O'Conor opposed the Government for not developing the^ West Coast, Coal Mines, for their wasteful expenditure upon the Inangahua Valley JSoad, and for. their abuse of patronage of the Press. He said that the Government had got their own literary hacks into the House to trumpet the praises of that Government institution, the Press Association, which was to take the public fcy the ears. '••,■! •■• •'',.-•'■. •.•".-. ;•' debate was adjourned on the motion of Btr, O'Neill. ' "... y •'>'''' ' : ,-,,., !,/,.