PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4858, 23 October 1894, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

', (By Telegraph.—Press Association) i Wellington,-Tuesday;-. • The House met yesterday, at half • past eleven a.m. 1 Mr W. Hutchison resumed the "_ debate ou the report of thoPoma- " liaka Pnrohase Committee, and supported the motion that the report be i adopted and entered in tho journals D of the Hotiso. s Mr Buchanan admitted that tho . evidence disclosed nothing inconsisi, tent with the honesty of the Minister e for Lands and his Department, but t tho whole circunistancessurrounding ' tho purchase demanded the keenest > criticism, '"■ 8 Mr Mackintosh, as a member ofe the Committee, bore testimony to tho y exhaustive and impartial character i of the enquiry, which had resulted il in the refutation of the charges • made against the Hon Mr McKenzie •' and his Department. ' ' • Mr Bell condemned jthe constitiv '"_ tion of the Committee, and said the questions at issue were decided on ■ [I strict party lines, Ho moved an. i. amendment "That this o not concur in thereport of the"|faßW P Lands Committee on the " the Pomahaka purchase. ' 8 Captain Russell seconded ' the - ? amendment, and pointed out no one c on the Government side had at,r tempted- to disprove tho assertion if that too much had been paid for the d property.