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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1865, 19 June 1884, Page 3

TUESDAY. JJIM&rhUIAL ANXOUNC'KMI'Nr. Mb Oln kh made a similar aniiouucenient - to that of the Pieimer in the House.

uuhixi:^ rosii'o.Nij). The Cihninal Code Bill and Lund Transfer Bill woic discluuged, and all other busiucbs postponed.

TUB AI>J>KEV>. Sir G. Whitinoie witbdiew his amendnieut to make tlic Addict only foitna!, and the debate on it wai then continued by Mi Scotland, who s..nd nothing new. t _ Mr HaitMippoited the piopo&ed JNative Lands Bill. Mi Miller said the piescnt Government had disappointed then bust fnendsby continuing boti owing. He would not have spent a .sixpence in the South for yeaispast. In the Not th Island the tinnk line should for many 1 canons be made. He opposed the Ot.igo Cential and East and West Coast lines also emphatically. ]3oi lowing another five millions would nun the colony for a time. He hoped and belned the meat indnstiy would help the countiy, f«i wheat-gi owing was really gambling, theie not being one good haivest in five. Thiotigh want of confidence, men v\uic investing then money in anything but land. The pi opei ty tax was .1 chief cause of the want of confidence. Anothei causo was utteiances of public men such as the Pie niier speaking for doing away with freehold teniue, Peipetual leasing was a will o' the uisp, and unsiuted to the wants of human natui c. Thci cw as fai too large a tendency to tin n every thing into a company, which meant gieat los-, of individual eneigy. He paid eight times as much money for piopeity tax as uudci the land tax, but he did not advocate the lattci. He would stop the San Fianci&co sei vice, and give the sub sidy to thednect steameis. It was many yeais too soon foi fedeiatien. Hcsiippoited the native land polity. Mr Chambcrlm suppoited the making of the Noithein tiunk line. He accused Mr Watei house of barefaced impudence in opposing it, seeing lie had urged it formerly. The Speaker called him to older for thus expression. The Address was then passed, and the Council robe at half-past four.