RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, 6 July 1889, Page 3

RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.

As animated deb*to took place in the House of Commons on May 3rd relative to the proposed concession of responsible government to Western Australia. In Committee of Sopplv 8h- G. Campbell moved the by £IOOO, View of complainine of the policy of the Colonial Office in alienating a lsrge part of WestenuAuttralia without the authority af the Imperial Parliament He contented thai the unallotted land* in that colony were capable of being'"wed to great advantage by the United Kingdom in helping to solve the immigration problem. Sir James Fergusaon indited that aa the waste lands of the Empire represented a vast expenditure of blood and treasure, they might he retained under Imperial eonfrol until there waa sufficient resident population to take over responsible government. He knew a Urge body of the residents in the south-western portion desired that their portion should not be placed under responsible government, but eocharea*. Bawende Worms stated that the Imperial Government waa" not yet aware of the contents of the bill of reaaonalUe government reeently passed by the Tegiskiivs CoondjcTWettern Australia. He expected U would reach England on June 1. Jfomeroea lepresentattone have bean inedeJMinat granting Crown lands to WMMIMe government, 'those who wished that emigration from this country to the colonies-should hot !>' stopped. In dYfoanee to th • very vtoa*«4hev'<lbve»»ens had stipulated that tha new Legislature r thTbm wee drafted on those set* lii|i|ilita,ftf&ea¥iafL Pew at "••

i iSHdV' > 3j Br4t wowldbTdbtasssd hi the Hoaw, and than opportonlty would *ns* of stating sfokm* *h*hjh<»H* eoatf not .ey whwftor,* ft* eve** of imyousibl* iiii Tii*ttt*fri<fltohl niinwj i u mi ih the o*Wpw of the »toiMr the .sine partem Mthv'W Ooa>A<Mte«Mr at Cap*/ Colony. Dr. (Hark d**oiwd tbjltftswloniee governed from Downing-»t«it were much won*, off (hut the colonies goreming thewselve*. yu *aid thai lost Qnoomlsrtd wm not willing to encourage immigrants, because all • the, raJuabl* bode in ft* freehold areawerouodec loaaeJby. pastoral, tenant*, eo ft*W the condition of Weetarti Au|relie be ia the fotore. Jf it *i» J£g£f4 over to • populertion of saw* JWOO families without restri«UojuQyenuld not conceive aaytbji^, mora d# ioeiyely fflmd,.. not only in the intftmte itaW oat own dw** but in ft* inter**** Of thwe*toJ»>&f,G>an daEbetateJy. to *»t op » cotmnunity of pxivjmn of lasge tracts of territory, what thjf wanted was that is thos* aQßUhoiiliee wet* put in noassesioa Mtvpao equare mile* a definite limit should be pot to the powerof dividing the limits among fteiaaslv**, which those who would hare fall authority would possess. . Unless the bill contained a conditioo that land-grabwing and land-jobbing on a big aesfe should be impossible, and that the land aboold be Md*d tmJyin limited portion* to ft*** who were fortunate to ; he «Uapa» of the a*w community . be would recommend the committee to divide wift bmwwHniendi^ After further debele, Baron de Worms eaid in the bill which would have been int*odo«*d to to the meawnre passed in Western Australia full power would be rj*r tained to the Imperial Parliament to lay down what conditions they thought fit, both •*> to immgration and as to the principles under which the unoccupied lands in the colony should be dealt with. Sir G.Trevefyon said that after this very dintinot pledge he was notjusttfied in praising the matter further. * Both the Times and Pall Mall Gazette condemned in the strongest language the proposal to hand over a huge colony to a handfull of settlers. Tho remarks were both uncomplimentary to the progressive character and ability of the colonist* The Pall Hall Gazette declared that the proposed surrender was nothing lass tb n the establishment of an exclusive nbligarehy of squatters on a vast Imperial reserve, and to accept such a position would be j sheer fclly. i J