PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 60, 30 June 1876, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

* [by electric telegraph.] Wellington, Friday. T&SE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. The House resumed last night at 7.30, when on the order of the day for the consideration of the Governor's Speech, Mr. Reader Wood took occasion to make an exceedingly strong personal attack on the Premier, but the whole House spoke out with one voice against it. The Speaker called the hon. member to order, and he was understood to apologise. The gist of his speech was that Auckland had "been badly served in the Compact of 1856. They did not wish to break it; they, however, wanted a fair share at the Customs revenue wherewith to carry on their own local Government, and to pay a contribution to the General Government, instead of the General Government .collecting tax, and doling out subsidies to Provinces. What was wanted was four Colonies, and a dominion of New Zealand. The very laws of nature were against its being anything else, and nature was above man. Sir JULIUS VOGEL did not reply to the personalities, merely saying he hoped such exhibitions would never again be made in the House. "He informed the House that the Financial Statement would be made on Tuesday; he did not care to discuss matters that would be embraced in that. On referring to what they heard from Auckland and Ofcago, abolition, he said it seemed to Mm that in all of these discussions the objections came from "Auckland City and Dunedin only. All other parts of these Provinces would hail with satisfaction any form of Government that was not a Provincial Government. What the country really required was separate local governments for the cities, and separate local governments for country districts ; they had had enough of Provincial Government.

The motion was agreed to, and the House adjourned.