members of the Legislature to get up and denounce a particular Government because some previous Ad ministration bad done something which was not approved oK He dissented from thu hon. gentleman's deduction that there was any neces^a-y continuity of action on the part of persom who administered the affairs of the country at different i-msi, or that it was not quite possible to discern between the course taken by one Government and by another. It was a most strange doctrine, and one contrary to all parliamentary practice, that the fact of one Govern ment haviog erred in a particular direction should be held to damnify for ever the acts of all succeeding Governments. If such a principle were allowed to obtain, what would be the position of different parties in the Legislature ? If the honourable gentle man really thought the matters he had spoke of had been 10 muddled, why did he not propose some other maohinery ? Why did he not ask, for assistance, that the control of native affairs should be handed over to the provinces ? No doubt the Government would be only too glad to be relieved from the possibility of "meddling and muddling." If the hon. member thought that the General Govern* ment were unfit to have the confix! - cc of the natives, why did lie not boMly say that he wished the management to be Landed over to the provinces ? Mr. GtBLBTOH t I wish to leave it entirely to the law. Mr. Stafford : The law could not deal with the daily affairs of the natives. It had no more rjght to interfere with them than it had to interfere with the hon. gentleman, so long as he did not offend against it. It only stepped in when a person had become a criminal, or a suspected criminal, and up to that time it was altogether dormant. If by the law he meant a court of judicature, it gave no counsel, but only pronounced a sentence when a member of the community was brought before it. The Court referred toby the hon. member was created for a special occasion, and was really a compensation court under another name. He entirely agreed in the terms his hon. colleague had' made use of in reference to the conduct of Mr. Monro. 