Odk report of Parliamentary proceedings in committee on the Abolition of Provinces Pill, during the weary hours of early morning, is necessarily a mere record of facts, and our report of proceedings during the day is very much curtailed. The fact is that in respect to reporting Parliament in its lato continuous aspect we had little choice left us. In the first place, with the space at our disposal it would have been simply impossible to have given anything approaching the somewhat full reports of ordinary proceedings which wo have been lately in the habit of publishing. • Arid in the second place, we do not believe that our readers would have cared for any more lengthy reports on. the subject. With regard to yesterday morning's debate (if indeed that can be called a debate in which the speaking was all on one side) it may be said that Mr. George Hunter made a speech which should have been delivered at an earlier stage, when it would have been most effective on account of its evident sincerity and the desire it evinced, whilst steadily maintaining a principle, to bo so conciliatory as to bring about a quiet settlement for the time being of the question at issue. As a piece of honest and fair speaking, Mr. Hunter’s speech could not have been excelled. Mr. Stout made a speech remarkable for research
and intellect. No one could deny that his copious quotations from most eminent ■writers were apposite, but it must have been quiet satire which tempted him to presume that the mass of the members were acquainted with the works of Plato, Hobbes, and Herbert Spencer.
It would seem to be an established fact that in whatever part of the world people from Great Britain settle down upon, their love of old British sports soon crops up in a practical manner. New Zealand has most certainly been no exception to this rule, for the colony has not only bred as good horses as ever ran on Newmarket Heath, but when these have been sent over from time to time to Australia to contend against the pick of the large racing studs there, they have distinguished themselves in a most remarkable manner. The performances of Zoe, Manuka, Lurline, Calumny, and many others, which have shone brilliantly on the Melbourne and Sydney racecourses, testify to this wellknown fact. Wo think that the gentlemen of Wellington may be congratulated on their being now thoroughly aroused to the necessity of not being behindhand in supporting the most popular of all sports, and we are glad to hear on very good authority that the other racing clubs of New Zealand are ready to grasp and welcome the sporting hand of good fellowship now held out to them by our local Jockey Club —an association that is undoubtedly becoming more and more popular in this province, and the working members of which well deserve all the credit awarded to them.
3? OR some time past certain individuals have been pursuing a trade of begging in this city. In no part of the colony is there less excuse for a man wanting work than in Wellington. Bor those who are willing to earn an honest livelihood there is always an abundance of employment to be had for the asking ; but it is a well-known fact that there are some who have a natural —or, as fancy may have it, an unnatural—repugnance to work of any kind, and who prefer to live on the charity of others rather than by their own exertions. These are the lowest and most degraded of impostors; and we draw attention to the presence in Wellington of a few such, in order that credulous persons may not be imposed upon, and bestow charity where it is so little needed and deserved.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4517, 11 September 1875, Page 2
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