New Zealand Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1877.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5123, 24 August 1877, Page 4

New Zealand Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1877.

.Mr. Reader Wo,ODvis an orator and actor, of . considerable lability,--and yesterday; he 1 provided- such an: entertainment ' for - the (House ,of. Representatives and 'the igatl-f. deries ai 'greatly relieved' the tedium and ' monotony; of’the’ recontoperaliohs' against "the Ministerial'psi. Master df all tnoodff, • ■from grave' to. gay, the .honorable gentleman rah up and, dbwn.tho gauipt pf passionate).abase'with such vocal clexterity arid smartness .an(l) such. dramatic, aotapri thaf thefeseemedjfpr, an. ipfetot a ;jprpba,-’ ,‘ljility that there', would. 'hav.e [ burst iforth' aVunaniraous;:,demand; from .‘both; 'sides , . for .ian; encore, a compliment which. the performance did most certainly;merit.- vlf that* ihad happened /Mr: *Wflop; cprild, -if lie had chosen) havb) at price,' ‘withbiit erribarrassmenf' 1 Afarblpd k different’ air, [with • a recitative, bf an entirelyppposite'characi' : ter; for his genius) in t»y trirnsi but nbtlunglpng. < In-£B74hie was’ prepared to propose resolutions : for the; abolition of, the provinces, - and was prevented from doing so Only by the action of . Sir (Julius VoGELtwhbrri -he-' supported* ■ [iWithin'avfew .months a afterwards'’Ghe (appeared'in the character of a member <j>f Sir r ■George' s 6itkY’S ; ; ;Pfo'vi.ricial/ ,, Executive, i ; and’df)a violent ’.6pponbpt IJ iii the Etouse' of’‘ Represeritatives .pf tthe' trieasure of' ’abolition,to; the support' c[f) which he; had' .'already'deliberately- pledged himself! ‘lt 'is, therefore .riot urirepsohablej to suppose. ; that if the resolutionpr amendment which. he .yesterday: moved ; f were j carried)..he might to-morrowiibe foundlivigofouSly -ref: sisting the .passing of-'the- necessary 'Acts to give effect to the'change; which he 1 pro--:poses. Ariibuscades ••ahd'':Surprißes are the party ■ tactics- ’,of the' 'moirierit 1 .'’ ;* fi ln!' half an bopr,” says Sir Geo'rgb’ Grey,’ “I can alter the incidence''of taxation from sugar Wlarid, ‘drirstyupVthe.rlargp ‘properties, (arid thus make , the poor man rich !” In.-half an hour,’’ .says'Mr., ißbader, Wood, with a ; theatrical speech,, and Ta- t party resolution : aimed- lat 1 ' the Ministry, VI. can break a solemn compact,. which; has: been operative” for : twenty years, which‘has been re-affirmed by tmany Parliaments, and ratified by' legislation iri ■ this ’presentAssembly asthfi bakik of the' scheme of abolition: of prdyinces. y Surply' this is not the way inwhicnl the cpnside- 1 r ratiori)of questions of' suclv-yital, importance .should bo approacheij.-, ,r They qre ivorthy of being discussed: deliberately with; care and forethought,; and with some more; .knowledge -of facts;andi!of ■ history than■M- Rees '. displayed: when' he asserted a few hours: -ago- that 'Governor Grey had handed 'over 1 this coloiiy Iffee from 1 debt to’ the .Cohstitiitiorial -Gd-:’ yerninent' fromI’the 1 ’the advent of which he' 'fled, whereas 1 it'iS '.but too Well-known,, unfortunately, .that the' first.movemonts of', the' new, (Government were embarrassed jby the,New,'Zealand (Company’s debt and liabilities of some quarter(; ofa million,, and-that-it-was,- out , of: the necessity of , saving ithe province;-of.; Auckland "from, ruinous- confiscation -of its land- revenue—--then the orily larid revenue in - the colony X*in o payment : bf ‘ : the' imficlst '■ kribwii; •as ‘ ' “the NeW 'Zeiahinld Company’s fourths ’’' that the'‘c6mpfiSfi-'sf ;!:t lßs'6 arose, and! the; .first ; New, Jbf half-fir million was agffiee.d: to; bo raised. The. ■ehango' ‘ 1 in, the incidence ( ((of)(„ taxation. .and tho'brfiaking .bf'.the'cpmpfiptj(of,^ss6,j ,axo, ’surely, wo, repeat,),qiicptibns .xarge, (enough tp,peed. the grave and,.careful cqnI'sideration of,statesmen.; Such, .treatment: ( as,tiiey afeiriow, receiving,' inrib.eing made the weapons of a party dn a) scrimmage for , office, :and>;the .means’, (of wilfully '6bstructs iug [the -progress of s the public'business;' 1 and of preventing the necossary pr,o7ision ■ -being .made-'for.the’prbsecritiOn’bf public 'works,' whilst’the’' working-mari ; i3'crying' l out for'employment, is, not calculated to,, . ctefite'cCnfidenco in the l , wißd9,m. 1 of l Parlia-. merit' (’or.) to . maintain . fhe -credit,; of ,tho. cplony abroad, .. ;■ .‘u - ;