His experience of Parliament in New Zealand was that there never was a tariff which bad not been treated in the same way. Mem bers did on the last occasion what bad been done almost every lime a tariff was before the House. A great deal had been sad to the effect that the tariff was opposed to farmers’ interests and in favour of other classes, but he asserted that tbe Government had endeavoured to bring about readjustment that would benefit all classes without unduly press ing any. "Some of tbe proposals the Government made to’the House were defeated, but he thought fanners and the working classes could not complain. He read a list of articles, in cluding fencing wire, barbed wire, sheep shears, woolpacks and pockets, and binder twine, which were now admitted free, but were formerly subject to duty, and said it was im possible to carry these proposals without grant ing a quid pto quo protection to the workers ou articles manufactured in the colony. The tariff was, however, now settled, and he hoped there would not be another one in tho time of the present Ministry—(laughter),—for he could assure them it was one of the most trying things they had had to deal wito. Respecting land legislation,

he said he had groat difficulty when the Government entered iuto office because their predecessors in power had disposed of all the good land with the exception of a certain amount of remnants, out of which the present Government were expected to crea e great settlement. Large estates had been created in all parts of the coloay-in Canterbury by gridironing, in Otago by free selection, in Marlborough by a system of pre-emptive right, and in the North Island by Native land legisla tion under which in the past private per ch, sirs were able to get large landed cstat;:s from the Natives, la Canteibu-y in particular Government did not know where to put a settler who wanted laud, and in Otago there were only a few scraps. The Government saw it was impossible to make great settlement under these circumstances, and so they first, liberalised the general laws of the colony to such a degree that he thought they were the mo t liberal in the world, and then they went cn to buy land for settlement. 