THE DIVISION.
The division will not take place until next week. It was expected to take place this evening, but Ihe time has boen wasted in a personal debate. Wellington, Friday. Yesterdays sitting of Parliament was occupied in adiscussion on private business. The moat impoitant was Sir George Grey's motion for the production of a return ot the name 3 of those who received payment on account of the purchases of Native Lands. The Government anticipating the motion by laying the return on the table. It included £3,000 paid to Mr Buckland on account of Waikato lands ; several members criticised this payment when Mr Buckland explained that at great labor he had acquired a block of land in the Waikato which he believed would become a goldfield and he handed it over to the Government for the public good, only reserving his claim to any reward for the discovery of a gold field if it became one. He also sold a large area of land at 2s per acre, barely paying his expenses. Sir George Grey aud MiReeves refused to act on the Committee to inquire into the sale of the Waikato swamp, on the ground that there were only three Oppositionists to seven Government supporters on the Committee.
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Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 511, 28 August 1875, Page 2
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209THE DIVISION. Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 511, 28 August 1875, Page 2
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