There was a question before the Assembly on which certainly for » time it appeared the opposition got r.uher the beat of the argument, and thtt wu in, tho ravtterof the telegraphic arrangement whkh the Go vernment had allowed to be made with certain news papers in the place, fie thought that when one weighed the nutter, and looltad at it in the proper sense, and considered the fact that this Government was not the Government which it appeared bad al lowed the privilege in the first iostanoe, be would cnime to a different conclusion- Formerly the Pr as xgenT had the sole power <f pommu niuaUug freua 'messages, and when Government allowed the pdvilepe of communicating any mescagm by special wire, it was only putting them on a fair footing. The Press Agency supported the Oppoa tiori, and It was do', to bd wondered at that those p*ptrs which got tb« special wire Were supporter! of the Uovenununt- When the public came to consider that the Press Agency was nothing leu than t>n incubus, he thongU that it was a gre*t bleating it was got rid of. it had been in the habit of telegraphing items whioh were not of publio information, and telegraph ing nothing which was interesting, and therefore the mot sugtß were not worth much. For instance, some ye<r« vgo it w»s telegraphed that a -erman prlnco w»8 de*<i ; the next item was th»t Sir Julius Vogel wm about to leuve for New Zealand by the Northum bria; and the next that her Majesty and the Court were in deep mourning. Be mo eiy mentioned these because, as the messages appeared, it seemed as though the Queen and the Court had gone into nuurntng b-ciu-e .sir Julius w»b returning to the Colonies — (Laughter.) une of the great difficu'tlsi that pentons titteudingiho Houeeof KepresenUtivts bad to deal with wu the Native Question. He hid listened with great interest to these Native »ff *in, and heconfessod th*t after listening he could not make head or tail of the matter. 