PICKINGS FROM HANSARD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 240, 5 September 1872, Page 6

PICKINGS FROM HANSARD.

WHY MR FOX VISITKP THB WBST COAST.

lv the debate on Mr Curtis's Provincial Boundaries resolution, the tTeuiier is reported to have said ; — He migut bo permitted to say that the real object ot his visit to the Wesc coast was not, as had been stated by the hon. member tor Jf arneil, to sketch tiie glaciers it was this : that the members of the Government — and lb applied, to previous Governments as weil — ' uad always been in a state of mystification in regard to affairs affecting that part of the Colony. The/ were oontinuaiiy beiug charged by members from the VV est Coast with nob understanding the position of matters, aud he determined that he would make hunselt acqnaiuted with the necessities and requirements of the various districts by personal inspection. Having dove so, ho was ashamed now to think, how great his ignorance was in reference to that part of the Colony. Reference had been made to the agitaucn on the West Coast, and to his having fomented strife in the district ; but. Irom what he saw when he ai lived there it was too true that it needed no one to go tlitre for the purpose of eucouraging a feeling of the kind, ihere was enough discontent and cause for it in the locality ! it needed no interference from without.