MR. HURSTHOUSE AT MOTUEKA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5529, 16 December 1878, Page 3

MR. HURSTHOUSE AT MOTUEKA.

(From the Colonist.) He would conclude by stating that ho had no confidence in the present Government. (Mr. Hursthouse spoke at some length upon each of his reasons for want of confidence, but our space compels us to curtail.) His reasons were —their neglect to bring in liberal laud laws, their ooudnct in connection with the Maori dual vote; that after bounoeably stating their intention to stand or fall by their measures, they had quietly taken their defeats; that they had entered into the Tapanui railway contract without the sanction of the House, and by the action on their part the colony was a loser, and he said that under the terms agreed upon with Messrs. Proudfoot the line would cost 25 per cent, more than if it bad been paid for as constructed. Another reason was they had made arrangements with four principal newspapers, supporters of Sir George Grey, for a monopoly of a telegraph wire, and by which arrangements the colony would lose £2BOO. Another reason was that some members of the Ministry were not agreed on important questions. How could the Government of the colony got on when two members of the importance of the Premier and Attorney-Ge-neral were diametrically opposed on questions which affected every person in the colony ? Therefore he said for these and several others not necessary then to detail, he had no confidence in the Government. The Ministry, he took it, were the paid servants of the colony, and as such had no right to do any act which Parliament had not authorised, except of course in minor matters. He had very little ‘ doubt that the Government would have a short life next session, that some one would be found who would lead the Opposition to victory, and he hoped they would then get an upright Government, who would not go behindhand,to the Governor to ask him to veto a measure, as Sir George Grey did last year.