Parliamentary.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2103, 30 September 1875, Page 2

Parliamentary.

HOUSE OP REPEESENTATIVES

THE EVENING SITTING.

The Abolition Bill finally Passed.

WELLINGTON

Thi?day. Upon the House resuming at 7.30 p.m.—

Mr. Wakefield spoke to the third reading of the Abolition Bill, the burden of his remarks being chiefly directed to show that to Edward Gibbon Wakefield was due the credit of giving New Zealand local self-government, not to Sir George Grey, who for seven years opposed all tbe endeavours of the colonists to obtain that privilege. He spoke and read extracts from debates in the House of Commons in January, 1846, in support of - his assertion. Sir George Grey made a formal protest against the bill as being unlawful, unconstitutional, uncalled for, and beyond the power of the Assembly to grant; as an infringement of the privileges granted to colonists by the Queen, Lords, and Com- , mons of Great Britain. j Mr Fitzherbert also recorded his protest, but congratulated his party upon their success in securing for the electors I of the colony that the bill should be referred to the constituencies before it became law. Mr Macandrew also recorded his protest against the bill as something unreasonable, tyrannical and unworthy of any Legislative Assembly.

Sir Donald McLean replied to show that the legislation of the past five years had been more successful, and had been accompanied with more prosperity than was attained for the twenty years before, and asked the House what the provinces could have accomplished without such general peace and prosperity.

A division was then called for upon the third reading of the bill, and the result was — • ayes, 40— Mr Andrew Sir D. McLean „ Atkinson Mr Geo. McLean „ Ballance . s , Mervyn „ Bastian „ Munro „ Bo wen „ O'Connor „ Brown, Ashley „ Ormond „ Bryce „ Parata „ Buckland „ Parker, Motueka „ Carriagton „ Pearce j, Curtis „ Pyke „ Cuthbertson „ Reynolds „ Inglis „ Kichardson „ Johnson „. J. Shepherd „ Katene „ T. L. shepherd „ T. Kenny „ Stafford „ Luckie „ Steward „ May „ Wakefield „ McGillivray „ Webb „ McGlashan „ Williams. The. bill was then read a third time and passed, and the House adjourned at 9.40 p.m.