LATEST PARLIAMENTARY. (From our Special Reporter.) Government Buildings.

Waikato Times, Issue 660, 12 August 1876, Page 2

LATEST PARLIAMENTARY. (From our Special Reporter.) Government Buildings.

Wellington, Friday, 7.30 p.m. TIIKSiiPAK VTION DKB vTK. Yesterday Mr Ballunc ma its a Tory telling speech vrhic.'i ev<ike.i bai'ly a,) pliuse foin ail ai.ies ol the Home. H) protested aguinih absurd Mire its inada bp Grey anl btout itbout V-jedmd -ml Otngo re.-iiting the wil. of the As-semby and then pr.Cjei d to «r*u • I *t iht Oppoaiti/nhad u tetlj fijj ed to pr.>ra tia ti>iu '0 al ooudi ion of • tin 00l my htm ia auy way m the poiitiou ot th- dir.3o 10a i loiciied Mr Ballnnc-i then took u 1 th> figure* of Rus, (tauter Woxl, an I Sr..> iC, where they had accused the G-oTornm tub of filsit'Cution and deception, and tihewdil in an abtolatelj eleur manner th.it Llia premises from which those members roiboned vrore nbsolately false. He wir^iy tl'iprccited tho &ttompt ma <c for party puiposea, and witliout fou-ulatiou to d rnige tlie credit of tho Colony. H-» tticn proceeded to ihow hovr really prospeiom the country was at the present tima, nn.l hjw rapid hail been its advancemaij cojn<iarc(l with other Colonies. H« .advis.d Auckland members to try sometlnnn p ao'ieil lurt'ie poo.i of their Provinces with regari to the l,ooil Go7t>r«uiotit PiOiOrtaii t»ef)re tho Hou»o frjm the iliuisfy. Ho thought loual intor^iits, teelmg. ani 'dis'inctiont sliould be rt.garJed, md in Co.nmiMeo the G-orera-mo it liiaisuios should be so framed as to cwult such into ostt, and m effort mad 3 to pj.i t'nm in tuo rigid a form. He dect.ircd himself opposed to Federal Gouorriß-eiit. Mr D * L 1L 1 Toar spoke much to the qaestton fi-iin in O ago point of view, and in tupponof Piovi'iui.khsin as oppo#*l to the oentrali3jng policy of the preset/ GoTernuieut. He thought so large question as that raised by Sir G-ooige &rey should be referred lo the people, and he deniod that the present Ho>isj fairly represented them. Fmallv, Mr Do La Tour compared tno Pi'einiar'i pjsitiou to that of S.itiu, a-* hi was de3cibed standou tho throne of clw >a before departing to devas'ate tho world. Mf Murray*Annesloy npposod the resolutions, and Mr Ma&indrew in a narrow local spooi h supmrteJ. He thouglit tho provincial legul iture f Otago quits abla to logitia,'e !or tv- w ijle Coioiiy. Mr M( ntgomery would oppose tho resolution, although not bouad to sapport G'orernment proposals. Messrs Mandera ani Ttwiti opposed, and Takamoana and Fichu- tupp^nel thu resolutions.

Friday, 8 pm. To-day, in roplj to Mr Rees, the Premer said the Government had not yec considered the question of up,jointing on Agent-General. It was iiupj<sibk) to do so «hile motiom threatening their position. vrere pending in the H.jua • Air Donald Keid is no.v spjaking in favor of thj Oppositior. Tho debito wdl probably finish on Tne.fUy. Votes, almost to a certuiniy, will bo 35 for resoldtionc!, 52 agx.ns!..