The hon member might be under the impression that he was doing service to his constituents, but he was very 'much mistaken. He was doing the very worst thing he could do for the. dis trict ; he was making it stink in the nostrils of members of the Council. The hon gentlemen had also told them the money could he got under the Wellington Debts Act, and in that also lie only showed his utter, ig norance, for not a shilling of the money raised under that Act could be applied to any other purposes than those set forth in the schedule. The* argument that the Council could raise £lo,ooo' by means of the Act was telling the Council what was contrary to law. The hon member had endeavored to make it appear on several occasions that he was anxious to do a great deal of good, and that the other members of the Council were preventing him, but let him look at what the Government had done since they had been in office. .Had they not constructed new roads and bridged rivers in all parts of the province? They did not intend to confine their operations to any particular district ; therefore he would not. be a party to an address to the Superin tendent for a vote of a large sum of money to be spent in a direction in which he thought the money should not go. Why should par ticular road boards be selected for special votes ? That was a question which could not very well be answered by the hon member. The remedy was to be found in the District Highways Act, under which the management of these matters would be handed over to the people. The Government did not wish to op pose the object of the motion, but it was their duty to see that the wants of all parts of the province were attended to, and he thought the people of the Wairarapa would ee very well content with the action already taken by the Council and the Government. He trusted the motion would not be carried. Mr ANDREW said the words of the Pro vincial Secretary would imply that there was a debt due to the Wairarapa in .1868, but that it did not exist at a later period. 