}& ZZ™t ono of those who were of opinion that" Si? George Urey's professions on behalf oi the Xll humtm race, in order to obtain a spurious oonu larity, was a sham because he haS seen enon K h of his efforts on behaif of strusreliniy h"m«^ft« to laugh at .such a charge. ThehonSla gentleman criticised the member for Thames'! alusions to the Greek States, and asked how ridiculous it would read in history for tK Greek States to separate first for the nurnose of federating afterwards, and yet that S f^Kf SYrS V r Ge ° rge £ re^ theVto i f An f 0 5 er p Sfcrange r, and " TeColldle able thing was that Sir George Grey said, what could be more noble than to make the surplus land revenue of the Middle Island ColonTal property ; and yet they heard the SupeSn | dent of Otago saying that the Compact of 1806 wassacred, and like laws of the Medea and Persians, that changed not. With regS to the JNatiye war, he would not for ono moment admit that the South caused that wT On the contrary, the South always acted very generously towards tue North/and if the scheme were earned out, and a war broke out! the South would find it could not escape the responsibility, though it would have no control over the war. He was not one. however "vho had much dread of a Native war. The honour? able member regretted the references to the hospitality of the Premier as an offence against good taste and his best friends were thosfwho most regretted such an allusion. Then asto the private expenses of the Premier at Home there could be no doubt that he rendered the most valuable services to the Colony, and if these were regarded merely from a pounds shitting and pence point of .view, the expenses of the Premier would not be considered much. It might be true, and no, doubt was, that the Premier was lavish of v his income, but it wat well known that arose v siinply f rom the «e»£. rosity of disposition that was always charac tenstic of him long before he had a seat on the Ministerial Benches. He believed the pre sent Government as fitting men to hold tho reins of office as any they could jret in tl.af House. 