they were not intending to do justice to the people at large. When the appeals came to be made to the people, they were determined to get such a l'ailiament re turned as would respect the tiue rights of the people. Mr Hall characterised the .speech as weak and transparently in error. They had not a .single word about what the speech professed about the finances of the colony. The speech commenced with a studied insult to the majority in that Hou.se. It was lamentable to Bee an elderly gentleman, who had arrived at a time of life when his passions v ere cooled, come cown and use the language he had done, simply because the House would not consent to satisfy ln.s lust for power and for offleo. They had laboured explana tions of the operations of this tax. Now, he would like to know what difference it made whether the money was taken in tliG name ot a property tax or income tax '! Then again, about the reduction of Ministers' salary. Did the hon. gentle man, when he was in office, reduce his own salaiy? He believed it would be fotnd that the hon. member had drawn from the public fund more than he (the Vivmier) did. If th it did not satisfy the country of the insincerity of the hon. member, nothing wo ild. They hart been chiUengel to reduce the Civil Service, but what had the hon member done when he was in office ? Why, he had in creased that service, and otherwise aug mented the burden he now complains of. What they proposed to do in the matter of taxing the Native lands w.vs to pave the way towards teaching the Native mind tli.it their properties must eventu ally bear their f-u'r share of the responsi bilities of the St ite. On former occasions the Government had been charged with living on bribes, and now they delegated the control of the local • fTurs to a Board outside th* 3 Government altogether. His complaints "were equally bitter. It, was not true they lnd taken oil the land tay as asserted ; tie fict was thit they had doubled the land tax. They were charged with having- spent large sums of money to the benefit of luge Lmdod estates Wh it drl the hon. 