Last Night's Sitting.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3586, 24 June 1880, Page 2

Last Night's Sitting.

THE NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION.

Mr Thompson spoke on the no-confi-dence debate. He thought the whole people of the colony were responsible for the present condition of affairs. He advacat d rigid retrenchment, and opposed the Government proposals. Mr Turabull considered the present condition of affairs as the national outcome of a long series of mis-government, fostered by the provincial system and magnified by the shameless scrambling for borrowed money. If they had a bold Government which would resist pressure, the Opposition would support all honest attempts at retrenchment. The money being spent they were all now,exceedingly vivtuous. If retrenchment would not suffice then fu ther taxation must be sub mitted to. This day. Mr Turnbull continued tue debate, saying he would not sanction the immediate dismissal, of a single civil servant. All parties were to blame for .so many men being in the Service, and to dismiss any more would be cruel to the men and wou'd aggravate t'ae public distress. All salaries aoove £200 should be reduced by from ten per cent downwards. He opposed fro education, and said the children of the Colony were nursed in Government cradles, educated at Government expense in Government schools, nurtured and fostered in Goverament offices, and finally buried in Government coffins. These luxuries should be abolished.

The debate was adjourned and the House rose at 10.30.