The bulk of last evening fell-to native lands administration. Mr A. Jj. D. Fraser by a technicality, got the Administration Bill postponed, but the next Bill, the Poriroa- Native '.Reserve Bill, gave_ an opportunity to range over the subject. The Speaker ruled against every single speaker's line, but the House was de termined, and the discussion resolved itself into a running fight with the .Speaker, thus members wandering per sistently over the forbidden, line got pulled up, and as each sat down the next carried on the discussion until he in turn came to grief. Every theory that belongs to tlus great subject was ventilated in itß-turn. We had the freetrader and the man who objects to a natives landlord class living in idle ness on the sweat of European brows, and on the other the man who de nounces freetrade as a cloak for ra pacity which impoverishes the natives and will bring them one day on the pension fund and the charitable aid rates, and the man who believed in the capacity of the natives to manage their own affairs. To the latter ' category Mr Willis did good service by testifying' that in his district many of the Maoris are farmers, and very excellent farmers too. The Native Minister managed, be fore the little Bill passed, to make a good defence of the Government line, and Mr Hone Heke said it was the right line, that it wants amending, and that the- Government Bill is in the right direction. The debate gave us a foretaste of what we may expect when the Administration Bill gets down..
