member for Waikouaiti said "Hear, hetr," but he was a man with a cold heart; a man who had set his heart upon wealth, and who pursued a course destructive to his fellow men, a man who would keep hk fellows in a state of debased slavery. Tha ownership of vast tracts of land was th« ownership of men, women, and children. It would be found to be fi» case that the Legislature was legis lating for themselves and faeir own advan tage. When they asked these gentlemen clothed in a little brief authority, soon to be aspersed by the breath of their misguided ooaatituencies, for these lands, then they,were eetby hard words hurled at a noble young *asa who stood up in the cause of his fellow wm. He asked the House to say that forth ■Sα a plan shall be laid down for dealing with thete lands. Let class distinction be «ona away with. It had been the same thine tarougbottt. Everything that was right had wnys been obnoxious to shorn. How, in the «n» of their great distress, was the time for than to eway the Legislative Council, sweep M»y that obstructive, expensive system, and no hmger t&row away £5000 a year in paying * 8 QoTernor to sanction such things. Sac gPBAKEE said that the member for the «>M»i appeared to be wandering from the B*G. Sum: continued, and said that the *3»HIMn of these large eeiateswas closely wooected with the constitution of the Leeis ™*eOcmncilandthe Governorship. Not alay P™*ki bat he had applications from rifted bnt for the wyfawiioh jf™® o*d been parcelled out would have «ra on fee right road for an honorable inde- Patau*.- Hβ thought that he had made !f *ca» to the effect that they had a right "L«ow what the Government intended to do wWw 9 Lffide - He demand ed to know were at once to be secured by men to whom he referred, or J"*® they were to remain victime o£ ■ «* indolence. • for eah £ ™ to ,°°mma*ee of Mrffir^Z 16 , 11 P ut sai «*"»* by 40 to 85, amendment being thus nega-

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■^■iSSSff* ,, * that ■*• ta and bridgee in unsettled die- proposed that it be reduced a^«*2«. Wl '"fß 4Bfe4i « n * atorion of !° te M Prated, passed. 