Let the Government tear up jthis Bill, and say that charitable institutions should be supported out ot the legitimate source of taxation, the unearned increment. The last speaker had talked about /elief being afforded from the House. Waii a poll-tax upon the hard-working man, or struggling deferred payment settler, the description of relief that was to be afforded? Me hoped the Bill he was about to ask leave to introduce would meet all the re j quirement* of this class, and render the Bill unnecessary. .-. ;

Mr Wakefield said that,this local government idea was a new-found one for tbe last speaker. He told his constituents at the Thames only a few weeks ago that he would do away with all local government together, and have the colony governed from this one Chamber. He congratulated him on his conversion to this new-found faith, and hoped he would not return again quite as suddenly to his previous notions. Ke gave no clear indication of how the system of charitable aid was to be provided for by local government. He did not believe that he had considered the question of local government sufficiently maturely to I enable him to bring down any scheme on the point. Sir G. Grey had never been a friend of local self-government, and he was about the last man they would expect to propound a proposal on that poiiit. It was a mistake to think that they had in New Zealand a pauper class analagouito that of Eneland. The unemployed ware, either men unfitted to the colony or euo they were men who,' during the summer months' earned sufficient to keep them W the year round, but who, through im providence or miscalculation had neglccteo. to provide tor the dull season of the yew. These were the poor, and it was nonsense to speak of a large able-bodied pauper clbsb in New Zealand. He admitted that • «"« deal more ought to be done by the ff«Utny for the poor than was done, ««".?£ wanted was an organisation t^lXewo* tribute assistance from tbe nd to hepoor If they had a proper system of 1?«) &™P ment that would be quite sufficient for the case Mr TUENBDLL questioned the statement was. 