PARLIAMENT. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday.

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PARLIAMENT. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday.

Thb Legislative Council met at 2.30 p m. Mr Lalnnann obtained leave owing to the present ciisis to po-tpim a question of which he had given notice as to whether it was the intention of the Government to bring in a bill this session to amend the Education Act with a view to abolish the central boaid«.

thi: Ai>i>iu>s-ix-ni.rn. Mr Reynolds io«o to move the Address-in-Reply to his Excellency's opening speech. Mr P. Buckley asked if it was a proper thing in face of the statement that the Government had lesigned th.it an addiess of this chaiactei should be discussed. Sir Geo. Wliitmore thought theio could be no possible objection to the council roplying to tho addio**. of tlie (Jm eminent. The Speaker s.nd he was of (ij)inion that the niotnn w.is m older and that it was the corstitutional duty of the council to move •in Addicts in-Re|)ly. Mr Reynolds theieupon addressed himself to the motion, briefly lefoiling 1 to the various points raised in Ins Excellency's* Speech which he understood to say would leceivo the caieful conbideiation of the council. Mr Scotland seconded the motion. Mr Oliver alluded to the rapidity and suddenness with which the Vogel Ministry had been condemned, at which he was not sinpiised. They had heard of person* holding themselves out ar ieno\at<iis of old clothes, but it seemed that Sir Julius Vogel had been held out since his ietuin to the colony as the lenovator of depies-sed colonies. They found Mr Stout lushing into the arms of Sir Julius Vogel, although he had been posing foi yeais as an advanced Radical, while Sir J. Vogel had aluay.s posed as a Tory. He did not mean to contend that coalitions weie always imnioial. Cncunistances might arne m the noai future which might dictate a coalition, but a coalition which was not forced upon those who held opposing piinciples was an minimal act; foi wh.it could be expected by welding togothei m one Cabinet those who weie di.unehically opposed in piinciples. One Minister would counteiact the othei, and the oniony would be reduced to an absence of ptopei adlninistiation. He piocecded to cuticise tlib Governors Speech at sumo length, in.iin taming that it was of ,i eoiitiadictmy cli.nactei and sought to scenic stippoit toi the Government by holding out piomi os m all duettions. Refeuing to the p>o li.isal to establish Railway Uoaids me I'.iiluinientto have contiol over the ta> i chaiges, he asked what would b« the use >f such boaids, as the very obj^t dcsiied was that the boaid should oh able to jegulate such chaiges. While m Victoria Mr Stout, not so long ago, wrote to the Aigus on the subject of fct ulway Boaids, condemning in no mea suied tcinis the system of taking away honi Pailiament the adn initiation of the milways, and yet they now found him a incinbpi of .1 Mmistiy which advocated those bo.nds In conclusion he expiessed his opinion that the counti y by the action of the other Inanch the Legislative had been saved fioin a grie.it dangei. Mr Watei house could not see what advantage was to be gained by Hogging a dead hoise. The battle had been fairly fought, and the victoiy had been gamed, and he deprecated any att'rnpt to embitter jMity fueling by discussing the policy of the Ministi y that had boen defatted He theiefoie contented himself by voting for the motion of Mi Reynolds, and hoping that paitics would unite to advance the inteiests of the counti y. I)i Guice thought the colony would bencht by the lecent political episode, in view of the oinb.iiKissed finances of thec-untiy. Sir Geo. Whitmoie, icfciiiug to the adveiso cuticisin on the paiagraph in the Go\eiiioi's Speech lelatuig to the sinking of abstiact questions, thought that Mi Stout was d.'sening of gie.tt jnaise foi having consented to such a couise. The town was on the, and it was nuccssai} that every effoit should be made in the hist place to extinguish the flame-.. Dm ing the last five years there had been elev en millions .idded to the debt of the colony. Tho tovemie was not improving, and theie was a deficiency last yeai. lie diftoied fiom Mi Oliver in refeienco to coalition qoveinments, and pointed to the expenences of Victona to show the good 1 cults of such governments. Mr McLean maintained that the colony was in a fan way to piospeiity, and he combatted the contentious of those who held a contrary view. He advocated tho completion of the iail»vay lme-> now in couise of construction, m oidei to make them pay. He alluded to (he desiniblenes^ of en com aging the sugar mdusti y. With vefeience to the Vogel Ministry, he thought that if Sit Julius had lesn sunounded bv cautious men, the lesult would have been diffeient fiom what it was. Mr Reynolds spoke biicfly in loply. He thought it was 111-judgfd of Oliver to li.ive taken \\[) tho subject in the way he had, and ho agieed with Mr Watei house in the opinion that it was useless to flog a dead h<u->o. He held that the condition of tho colony was not what it should be. They heaid lepoits that out of the next million loan nearly £800,000 had already been dissipated. (Mr Oliver : Nothing of the soi t.) He only hoped this would be found not to be the case. Ho complained that the Vogel Ministry had no*", been allowed an oppoitunity of unfolding their policy, and he believed the time was not far distant when such action would leceive its due condemnation. The motion was agieed to on the voices, and the Council adjoin tied at 4.10 p.m,