AUCKLAND.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 313, 19 October 1860, Page 5 (Supplement)

AUCKLAND.

(From the Wellington Independent.)

On October 2nd, Mr. Sewell asked the Government —" Whether it is intended to take any and what steps with reference to the petition of the Provincial Council of Wellington relative to the illegal expenditure of public money." Mr. Stafford replied that the Ministers would introduce a Bill on the subject at a very early day. The Representation Bill passed through Committee without material alteration. The second reading of the Wellington and Hawke's Bay Debt Apportionment Bill was postponed till the next evening. The following resolutions of Mr. Fox were carried with slight amendments by a large majority:— " That this House has heard, with deep regret, that a Bill has been brought before the Imperial Parliament, with the object of instituting a system of Government in reference to the Native Affairs of the Colony, which entirely removes those affairs from all control by the Legislature of the Colony; and it regrets still more deeply that so important an alteration of the Constitution Act should have been proceeded with so far, without any communication whatever on the subject having been made to the Colonial Legislature, or to the Responsible misters of the Colony. " That this House desires to repudiate, in the strbngest possible manner, the allegations which have been made, that the colonists entertain any but the most friendly feelings towards the native race, that they are in any way indifferent to their welfare and conservation, or that they entertain any such sentiments on the subject of the acquisition of the native lands as have been attributed to them. " That this house believes that the solution of the present native difficulties can only be looked, for from the local deliberations of the