-confessod thai, during titvlaat sessiori,!ho 'luuf had 4m inclination? ttu, fed that it waa 'somewhat"of a degradation, for ho be lievod, and h& declared; it> solemnly, that a more rotton and corrupt liogislature did n^t roxist2 underithowidft; canopy jo£ Hoaveti; than'!'tlM> General Assembly lo£ \ N«w > Zealand-/ ? "ilßi-ing: its) * last ■•■ session, -wholtf thingj.1 latterly; > was utterly do? < m«<rilis*d'V iia to, wasjiMi siiohf'thjngi to. bo , depondod i'upojv-Hil ; wan nterfely '^k% r rolling;''j> fflo sbeissved ttj«tsHhb«»J'"waaj 2nothing .■•■whjioh/ ' f.l\c irirtst tirii^ijwilons^ Miinatty• owi'ld have prop/iie^Twkich >i mightfttakbAve -beea] ■ aotforaplitlied i *■■ during i»>thft ■ latt-er ■>• ipasi d tfietwJUabn', if the Gbv^ntnent Kad'beor i&4ftsptmfcr- Ho'beliirfed that fit: Mi ho:** -f U-.'tt U:-'Vil »,i-iiM'.-;i;i«-4, t afj r h:Ut ~::;:iii >•■»,: t.t;-fl :/'>.;rtf!"f.»m,;m "A'iA:, ', -j '>''* ■ il/V.':I -■•■-£-'£ ''■-'' -''i.'tiVf ]'t j* iielill {i, fj T? i^inJa-.i r-.jt '«' ,„.;-..:• ■-•■■ ■■■'" ' ;

land bait *'ie Shires Councils Bill woult undoubted!," h*v* £? en l >P a? c t d ; and hl believed, also, *•)** *** I*"™' \ vo"u have rifled ow tlu» <fldhdd B of Otngo. The only bright *> *°*> latterly during tin sewidnr was the fon. *«a™«» of «»« ■try. They might lum "* Imposed to dmd< Otago into 'any number. «f counties jane it would have been carries •',-.., ?, '1 was; Canterbury andOtago—tbo. ™dd, lo Tslaml —had been skinned, to,.m«n. tIIQ n«** sitica of the North. Perhaps o. ,°y tbc most glaring proofs of the injuxtk '° '" *"* so-called Colonial «y»tein, was to It* 'oHnd in connexion with the Public Dcbto v et and the Loans Consolidntion Act. \ "J 5 effect was thia--tho Colony guaranfe-cv ' theProvmcf.il loans'r that was to any, Hawke's Bay, and Turanaki, and Soirth land and Auckland, which were all in a state of impecuniossty, condescended to guarantee tho loans of Canterbury a' tl Otago; and, as a quid pro<ttitw t Canterbury and Otago guaranteed the loitns of those Province.1?. 