Parliamentary.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 868, 11 December 1877, Page 2

Parliamentary.

I Press Agency.] THE .QUESTION OP A DIBSO LOTION. The memoranda between the Gc vornpr an t Sir G. Grey was laid oi the table late last ni rhfc, immediately before the adJDurnment. Sir G Grey, on tue 15r,h N ivecnber asks for* a di->S)luioa on th< grounds : — Th-it a vote o "no oonfi lencw " is still on . th< Order Paper. That several me m bers of the Home have, wit<ih: about four weeks, recorded theii want of confidence in. earth of th« two a Iminiß rations niraely — the late one and the one now holding office. Ministers believe that upon the single grounl that they were not in power at the time of . the election, they hive a cliira todissouton. Tue unsaoisfac ory state of the public business before the House after a session of nearly tour mon hs, rniarht also be urged as sufficient of itself to warrant a dissolution. Bit, in .vldi'ion, expressions of opiaioi recived from all parts of the country lead Ministers t'i believe that, in the erant of a dissolution, they will be enabled to Ciirry out the b;isia«33 of ih& cjuntry wih a laryfe wjrJciag ratj >rity. Th i contiun nee of Minis Wrs in- office- would aUo, i.i thfi-* belief (bas.«d on assurances they ha^e received from many leading nat ve ■) enable them to mAke progws t> wards brinijiog to an end the longcontinued isolation of a large aad very important section of fie native; population. Three of 'he four Maori members H the Honsg snp-•o-t'?he present Gjver,uii;iit, an.l t few day-* ag > the t'ojvbT s a'ed t.h-it ne had received from ms constituents e*r.ieHf r qi 'at-; that he would voto with the (jro^erntn -n^. Thare is; therefore, eve.y reas in for apply wing rhe mi<» of the nuii'e t >pu aron s-ippor th- presenc i.>-/orn-nent- T J estate f liH'fi ! noc h •f the cou.icrv r.m-le- m.;e-s^ry i complete raview of ou* Qnuoin < >ki n, and the .eo,jle w.i'l hive t » : ns le vViiothertli^ypfef rtosub nit. .> cm ideivib e B<ci"ificos ir to unVi itnv u.-deiH place I upo i th.-vn. )4dsUuo» aff<joti»4 tta represeutar

tiou of the people, aa welt us otlier questions of great importance, must also be dealt with. An appeal to the constituencies appears, therefore, constitutional as well as j tab and . of opinion flhafc ]a N^roald be undesiifajble; a^^R^B*|*fb^ the following fpasolipp^^^us^he is of dpi* tlje'ditficulbieß;whiol) have .|| jdi^ojfttittri> I 2HT|^»r6Benr, PirI pamefiit J^&UyjmjOli&second session, ■ "and trie Goveruor has been iufor ne<i i both by Major Atkinson and Sir Q. '• «§!•§£. fei it^i^thejr, iu£entiau>n*xt, year to ui roduce a bill for re-distri-bntion of the representation of the country. S 10111 1 suahabillpas9.it won! t tilmoso n 'oessirilv entail a fresh dissolution next veir, and it 'ia mVSire4t^th*b'ij" wo tld bn» inoaG undesirable thit Vbe count y siiouj ; , be put to , the trouble aiidex,)eu&e . of two.diss ilnctana in s-'ibpt a^ewo'l. , 3. Tho present 86 isbu of -the year is ohe one at whiefr I Jt'\vo'.ild v bß'iabW inconvenient to ibe country that a i lisspliition should take place, jas/the rural- districts, at any rare,' are fn Unoccupied by harvest ,aud shearing operatiohs. 4. The Governments nave nob informed the Governor that there is. .any great, m sasure or principle iti discussion ib'the. Hp"use wnioh could be' submitted f)rHhe ; ions deration of the cqustitaeucies, 4U.1l certainly, as far as the G »v«rnv>r is aware, no <mch measure of prin ciple is at the presaut Known to the public. 5, The Govera;nen i-.ifov i the Governor that'in cher opiaiori a dissoluim wo-ild secure to thetn a large working majority,^ 1 .hey h;iye produced ao evidince in support of th it ojxb >a A3 far as one Governor is awar», no .supply iias been graute I. The G^veruor, is perfectly alive to the fie', that it 3 nob a qtidstion which in Ei^Ua^ needs consideration, b c mae in Eng~ iand Parliament Una unif»r.uly vo»:e I the aap(.ilys necessary fir an ajpeal to the country. The Gjveruor, however, know3 as a fact that this uonrae ims liot beeo' uaiformlv aloptel in the oolouies, »nd hejls therefore of opinion th,it is' a question which -nusb enter into 'his consideration in deciding upon' a dissolution. In flngiaad ther^ L also the fartiier aategiarl in "the moral cerbidiity that no Minister 1 would venture to ndvise the iSjvereigu t» dis^jlve Parliament after Parliament had refused to vote the supplies neijesaary to carry on the BBrvioß of the country daring the ' time required for the eldctru a.ii'i 1 the re-«ssainbling of Parliament. Che Governor is deprived, of this turther secure ty, became Sir 1 George Grey discinctly inform «i j turn in conversation on the 260h ■ Oo'ober that if he granted him ; a disHoluti>n he would dissolve 1 whether supply was granted or not. The Governor, however, cannot ; take upon himself the respmsiuility of either sanctioning the expendibui'9 of public mv.iey ivhio^j Ins noo been # voted by Ptrli i-ne it v or I whrowinsf the waole «ountry i jto confiwioii an I causiig a large I unaounb of public and iadivi iiiai inconvenience an I disjtr jss by wittiholding tor t»v i or thr 0 months tha p.iyneuts whitsli »re j wtly du.i oybhe counr.rymdl at any ra e n • has exhausted every otue- exp^dieat. Fur ches3 reasb.is the Giveruor i-. is nob prepirddcograufi adwolubiou at pi'dseut. I\i9 oorrasp »n lenoe is vey voluminous.