YESTERDAY'S SITTING. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION ) Wellington, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1244, 19 June 1880, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S SITTING. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION ) Wellington, Last Night.

QUESTIONS AND REPLIES. The House met at 2 .0. Tioplyinir to quotums, ib was f'.ated tint Government ieeo<rnisod tlio importuu'G of jfeitiii" rabbits n pun lm-h and other reserves e\terrtim ite<l, ,md had the question undt>i O'm-ider.itinn. — Waste La'ids ltn.irils h id jiower uudfv <he 18th ■<octiou of tliu Act in wtbliold from f-,ile 17,000 ncrca of Te Aio'n.i block for the purpose of >elliiii;' it to Giant and Foster, or persons brought out throuirh their efforts. Government wms reijiiircd to Approve of this rule, in this instance that .ipprov.il li.id not, been form illy planted.

THE NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION. Mr Moss leiuimVl the (lc*%> ite on the " no eonnd<"ice motion." He leviewed Mi '^ iiu.mci'il proposil-, stating 1 lie total defivVfii' ics amount to 10!)"), 000 in round numb 11-,I 1 -, to innke irond Ih.it deficiency tli' 1 TifiiMiioi' had recour-e to t lie Public Works Fund. Whf'iithit fund wis exhausted ho wouM lilco to know what would b'" 1 done ; if the 1 ite Public Works T;"au had no| hen tlo it< d he would like to know in what position tliov would h.ivo found them^-lves placed They h:\d the ( ouutry literally oW-dniir ,it their foct. Such bpinsjr the ras<>, )ho (rovernment ou<rh f . to an Opposition organised for the express purpov of disvuwng aud .advKuig respecting this sonons state of nntieis Insteid of th.it they had shown a disposition to stamp out opposition, and .sat silent in their benches mst '.id of (Mit'Tin^ 1 ho.utily into the debate. The tax.iAion tliev pi-opo>od awis to be t.ak"n from ny n'.s na o^Uv:^ J and the natui.il ooiim->([U('ii c would be if thoy got it in that way they would losp it in anoth'T. Apart from additional taxation, evpiniditmc in execs, of estimated revenue was £")^3,000. After inakinu: tin ir caluiLitioa->. if, would be found th tt deficiency of £23 5.000 still existed; to meet that £50, (P0 a\ as to be taken oil" departmental silane-: tli.it A\as a most unsatisfactory pioposal, it, simply nicint that under paid poisons wo ild be still fuitlur ground down and oppie&sed, while the better paid ofHui.il-, e^ciped ; the remaining <leiieieney of £180,000, was proposed to be manipulated in some soit of an extraordinary way so as to transform it into a nominal surplus of £11,000. The plan proposed was a mere subteifuge, and he called upon them to be honest, and frankly admit th.it deft, leney had to be faced ; he denounced the "Wai mate Plains expenditure as being the employment of some GOO men for making a road into a swamp, "which was uttjrl> useless (Bryce denied the assertion that the road was useless). Colonel Trimble spoke in favor of the (Tovernment, .stating that the Properly Tax agitation going on throughout the colony was simply a political dodge, and that many of the men by whom it was earned on were men who oould not possibly be got at by the tax at all. Speaking of the Land Tax, he compared tho land tenure of the home country with that of New Zealand. The former was originally held for military service, and were no longer required. That condition was computed very properly into money consideration. There the case was different. Tho land wus sold at its full market value, aud as such it had no right to an exceptional taxation than any other marketable commodity. The debate was interrupted by the 5.1)0 adjournment.